Isabel was born in Lisbon in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When she was a child, she wanted to be a journalist, an archaeologist or a pediatrician. She didn\u2019t end up being any of those things, but she does love what she does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor me, writing is like digging: you always find something – sometimes worms, sometimes water, sometimes stones, roots, tunnels\u2026 a lost shoe.
I like writing because I almost always find something unexpected. And I like reading for the same reason: someone dug and dug and dug and found something that then they show us in words\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She studied at the Lisbon College of Fine Arts, before working as a creative in children\u2019s communication. Later, together with a group of friends, she founded the publisher Planeta Tangerina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A number of her books have won prizes or been distinguished by institutions connected to the world of children\u2019s books: White Ravens Catalogue, Andersen Prize, Banco del Libro, Portuguese Society of Authors (2015),\u00a0Gustav-Heinemann Friedenspreis (2017), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (2017). She received nominations to the ALMA \u2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of her books have been published in other countries all over the world (France, Brazil, Korea, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Holland\u2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":935,"template":"","team-category":[245,246],"class_list":["post-1069","autor","type-autor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team-category-autor-en","team-category-equipa-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n