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Ana Luísa Amaral

In addition to publishing numerous articles in Portuguese and international journals, in 2005 she co-authored (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) the Dicionário da Crítica Feminista (Dictionary of Feminist Criticism) and has recently published a new annotated edition of the feminist classic Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa.

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Ana Luísa Amaral (born Lisbon, 1956) is a Portuguese poet and a professor of Anglo-American Studies at the University of Porto.

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She studied at the University of Porto, where she obtained her PhD in 1995 with a thesis on the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

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Her work has been awarded several literary prizes, including Portugal's most important prize for poetry (the "Grande Prémio" of the Portuguese Writers' Association) in 2008, for her book Entre Dois Rios e Outras Noites, and the Italian Giuseppe Acerbi Prize in 2007.

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