Marcela Dantés

Marcela Dantés was born in Belo Horizonte in 1986. She has a degree in social communication from UFMG and a postgraduate degree in creative processes in words and images from PUC-MG. She also participated in the traditional Creative Writing Workshop at PUC-RS, under the guidance of professor Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. She worked as an advertising copywriter for five years, a profession she abandoned to dedicate herself to literature. In 2016, she published the collection of short stories Sobre pessoas normais (Patuá), a semi-finalist for the Oceanos Prize. In 2020, he published his first novel, No sign of wings (Patuá) , finalist for the São Paulo Literature Prize and the Jabuti Prize. João Maria Matilde (Autêntica Contemporânea, 2022), her second novel, also a finalist for the São Paulo Literature Prize, was written during the period in which Marcela was a resident author at the Óbidos International Literary Festival (Folio), at the invitation of the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa. In 2024, she published the novel Vento vazio (Companhia das Letras).