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Joyce Cavalccante is a Brazilian author of seven novels, plus several short stories and articles that today appear in eight anthologies. Cavalccante's writings focus on the plight of women in Brazil who live to pray, marry and die.[ citation needed ] She is the president of REBRA, the Brazilian Women Writers' Network.
Joyce Cavalccante was born in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil, on March 12, 1963. She is the third child of Ernesto Saboia de Figueirêdo and Albetisa Aguiar de Figueirêdo. She spent her childhood in the city of Sobral, precisely on the Jatobá farm owned by her parents. He moved to Fortaleza in his teens.
She adopted São Paulo as the city in which to live and develop her writing career. She is a novelist, short story writer, chronicler, tetrologist and lecturer. She has published eight books of prose fiction individually, and participated in fifteen collections of short stories with other authors. She systematically contributes to the press, publishing short stories, reviews, articles and chronicles. For some time he has been giving lectures on literature at Brazilian and foreign universities. She is president of REBRA - Rede de Escritoras Brasileiras (Network of Brazilian Women Writers), a non-profit organization whose mission is to expand opportunities for women in Brazil.
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