Eliana Alves Cruz

Eliana Alves Cruz is a writer, screenwriter and journalist. Água de barrela (Malê, 2018), her debut novel, won the 2015 Oliveira Silveira Prize from the Palmares Cultural Foundation/Ministry of Culture, and received an honorable mention from the Thomas Skidmore Prize from the National Archives and Brown University. Her second novel, O crime do cais do Valongor (Malê, 2018), was chosen as one of the best books of the year by critics from the newspaper O Globo and was a semi-finalist for the Oceanos Prize. The novel Nada digo de ti, que em ti não veja (Pallas, 2020) was awarded by the Brazilian Writers Union, and the book A vestida: contos (Malê, 2022) won the Jabuti Prize in the Short Stories category. Her most recent novel is Solitária (Companhia das Letras, 2022). Eliana is also the author of children’s books A copa frondosa da árvore (Nandyala, 2019), O desenho do mundo (Bom de ler, 2022) and Gênios da nossa gente: personalidades negras (Malê, 2024). As a screenwriter, she was the head of the series Capoeiras, from Disney+, and was part of the Anderson Spider Silva series room, from Paramount+, a channel for which she also developed the project “Narrativas Negras”. She worked as a researcher at Rede Globo and Fox and currently presents the program Trilha das Letras, from TV Brasil.