Maria Beatriz Fonseca Corrêa do Lago, better known as Bia Corrêa do Lago (Rio de Janeiro, April 3, 1958) is a Brazilian writer, journalist and researcher. She is the daughter of writer
Rubem Fonseca
Rubem Fonseca (May 11, 1925 – April 15, 2020) was a Brazilian writer.
Life and career
He was born in Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, but he lived most of his life in Rio de Janeiro. In 1952, he started his career as a low-level cop ...
, who was awarded the highest literary award in the Portuguese language – the Prêmio Camões – and is the author of numerous books, including ''Agosto'', ''O Caso Morel'', ''O Cobrador'', and ''Bufo & Spallanzani''.
Biography
Bia Corrêa do Lago was born and lives in Rio de Janeiro. She holds a degree in psychology from
PUC and has authored various texts about
Frans Post
Frans Janszoon Post (17 November 1612 – 17 February 1680) was a painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas, during and after the period of Dutch Brazil. In 1636 he traveled to ...
and 19th-century photographers. Since 2001 she has written and hosted the show ' produced by
Canal Futura, where she interviews playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, composers, dramatists and other public figures who deal with the written language. In 2009, together with her husband,
Pedro Corrêa do Lago, she won the highest award in Brazil for an art book – the Prêmio Jabuti – for ''Coleção Princesa Isabel - Fotografia do Século XIX''. Names interviewed on her television program include
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists a ...
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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was b ...
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José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which ...
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