Adriana Lisboa

Brazilian Author

Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa grew up in Laranjeiras where her family stills resides in the house her grandfather built more than fifty years ago. By all means, Lisboa is a true Carioca, a native of Rio de Janeiro. This categorical identity, hasn't deterred the author's unrelenting pursue for what laid beneath or beyond At first it was life beneath the Brazilian surf what caught her attention, she would later draw inspiration other forms alien-life. In Lisboa's universe, the other encompasses mollusks under the sea, Muslim in Paris, Communist guerrilla-warriors in Amazonia, Brazilians in North America, and even a golden retriever in a Kyoto's street corner.

Lisboa challenges the same cultural traditions that have ruled a generation of writers from Latin America as she wonders in search of new answers in a labyrinth that seemed engineered by Octavio Paz twenty years before her birth. Jose Saramago labeled Lisboa "a writer for the future". I couldn't disagree more: The Carioca is clearly a voice deeply rooted in the present, which has come to reformulate the past with a unique perspective of the future.