About the book
Poems of longing and farewell: verses about memory, loss and what remains of those who leave. Edited by Cristiane Zovin.
About the author
Maria de Lourdes Alba
Maria de Lourdes Alba was born in São Paulo in 1957. A journalism graduate with a postgraduate degree in journalistic communication, she is a writer and member of the International Academy of Brazilian Literature (AILB/NY). She received a Special Mention from the Academia Mineira de Letras in 2004 for Gotas na face, was awarded twice in Italy for poems in Portuguese, in 2006 and 2015, and her novella Clara was named The Best Book of Fiction of Brazil 2017 by the International Writers and Artists Association.
