Name Ana Santos | Role Writer | |
Ana Eduarda Santos (born 1983 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese writer.
She was the youngest winner ever of the Revelation Prize/Fiction - First Novel (Prémio Revelação APE) in 1999, aged 16 for "Luz e Sombra" (Light and Shadow). She has also won the Eça de Queiroz Award for Short Stories (2001) and the Júlio Graça Award for Short Stories (2003).
Santos has published two novels, a play and a collection of short stories in Portugal, as well as a play in France, Calluna Vulgaris (Gare au Théâtre), which premiered in Paris in 2001. She has also translated into Portuguese some works from the Italian, among which are Umberto Eco's A Passo di Gambero and Ugo Foscolo's Sonets.
Santos has a degree in Law from Lisbon's Catholic University and is currently studying Intellectual Property at Duke Law School, United States.