University of Oklahoma
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Norman, OK 73019-4037
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Patricia Melo
Photo: Kyrhian Balmelli
Patrícia Melo was born in 1962 and is a highly regarded novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. She has been awarded a number of internationally renowned prizes, including the Jabuti Prize 2001, the German LiBeraturpreis 2013, and the German Crime Award 1998 and 2014; she was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Time Magazine included her among the Fifty Latin American Leaders of the New Millenium.
