Patrícia Melo was born in Brazil in 1965.
A novelist, scriptwriter, and playwright, Patrícia Melo won France's Prix Femina and Deux Océans for her 1995 novel, The Killer, which was also listed in World Literature Today as one of the best Brazilian novels of the 1990s. The Killer has since been adapted for the screen and won the prize for Best Foreign Film at the San Francisco Film Festival.
Her third novel, Inferno, was published in 2003. It received Brazil's Jabuti prize and was short-listed for Britain's Independent Foreign Fiction prize. Her latest work, Black Waltz, was published in September 2004.
Melo currently lives in São Paulo, Brazil, where she is completing her next novel.
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