Luisa Geisler (born 1991 in
Canoas
Canoas () is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, forming part of the Greater Porto Alegre area. It is the largest municipality of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre and the third largest municipality of Rio Grande do ...
) is a Brazilian writer.
At the age of 19 she was awarded the 2010 ''Prêmio Sesc de Literatura'' (Sesc Prize for Literature) for her debut book, the short story collection ''Contos de Mentira''. She won again the following year for the novel category with ''Quiçá''.
In 2012, she was chosen to be part of the
Granta
''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make ...
short story collection for the Best Young Brazilian Writers. Geisler was the youngest writer to be selected for the collection.
Revista Granta lança coletânea com brasileiros
. Diário do Grande ABC, 6 de julho de 2012
Bibliography
* ''Contos de Mentira'': short story, 2011
* ''Quiçá'', (novel), 2012
*''Granta Best of Young Brazilian Novelists'', (anthology; with the short story "Lion"), 2012
See also
* Brazilian literature
References
External links
* (Portuguese language)
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1991 births
Living people
Brazilian women novelists
Brazilian women short story writers
21st-century Brazilian novelists
21st-century Brazilian short story writers
21st-century Brazilian women writers
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