Carla Madeira

Carla Madeira was born in Belo Horizonte in 1964. She dropped out of a Mathematics course and graduated in Journalism and Advertising. She was a professor of advertising writing at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and is a partner and creative director of the communications agency Lápis Raro. In 2014, through the publishing house Quixote+Do, she launched Tudo é rio her first novel. She subsequently published the works A natureza da mordida (Quixote+Do, 2018/ Record, 2022) and Véspera (Record, 2021). This trilogy of novels, recently published in a commemorative box, made Carla Madeira the best-selling author in Brazil in 2023.