I was born in 3rd August 1986, apparently after a stormy morning.
As a child I was always quite keen on literature (though still in its early stages) and music. So my parents decided to sign me in a music school, where I started to study the piano. In 1994, I took part in the juvenile cast that, directed by professor Norma Graça-Silvestre, presented a translated version of “Hänsel und Gretel”. It was only in 1996 that I entered the music academy Academia de Música de Vilar do Paraíso (AMVP) in which I would eventually finish the 8th grade of Piano and Musical Education. From 2001 to 2005, I was a member of the AMVP’s Juvenile Chorus. That experience allowed me not only to improve my musical knowledge but also to live some very happy moments. And it was quite a memorable day that in which, conducted by Maestro Ernesto Coelho, the Juvenile Chorus won a First Prize Cum Lauda in the 50th Neerpelt European Music Festival.
My great passion for acting drove me to join the Sporting Clube Candalense’s Juvenile Drama Group, in which I stayed from 1995 to 1997. Moved also by my love for Cinema, in 2001, I participated in one of the workshops organized by the Os Filhos de Lumiére association. This is a passion that I still have and I refuse, in a certain stubborn way, to forget it. Maybe one day I can take it further.
It was my Portuguese high school teacher – Maria Luísa Pinto – who motivated me to write film reviews for the wall newspaper of the Nossa Senhora da Bonança College, where I studied from 7th to 12th grade. It was also she who persuaded me to enter the juvenile literature contest “Triângulo Jota”, organized by Edições ASA during the first semester of 2002, in which I won the 9th place in the Secondary School Category. My experience writing cinematographic reviews also helped me becoming one of the ten winners of the DN’s DVD Collection Contest.
In the summer holidays of 2002, between my 10th and 11th school years, as I really had nothing better to do and also because the idea for “The Sceptre of Aerzis” trilogy kept coming to my mind for sometime, I decided to write down what would come to be “Daughter of the Worlds”. Ever since writing has become more than a passion. It’s a new necessity and something that I absolutely love to do.
“Lady of the Night and Mists” and “Queen of the Lands of Light” followed it, respectively in the summer holidays of 2003 and 2004. All books were published, by Edições Gailivro, a year after they had been written.
Invited by Épica – Portuguese Association for the Fantasy in the Arts, I was one of the speakers in the events “The Fantasy in the Feminine” and “Fantastic Forum 2005” which took place in late 2005.
During 2006’s summer holidays I focused on writing “Prelude”, a work entirely different from the trilogy but equally rewarding, released in 2007 by Edições Gailivro.
In November of 2007, once again following an invitation by Épica, I presented and conducted a conversation with author W. J. Maryson as part of the programme of “Fantastic Forum 2007”.
In the first semester of 2008 I finally had the opportunity of fulfilling a long time objective by integrating the Erasmus Mobility Programme. Milan might not be the capital of my dreams, nor the city in which I would like to live, nevertheless for some months it was my home. It was the scenery for so many experiences that certain nostalgia is inevitable. I cannot repeat the instants but I do hope I will not lose the people.
I got my degree in Biology in 2008 by Oporto’s University of Sciences. I still find Biology a fascinating science. Its wide range of subjects is thrilling and appealing. However, it was to Literature that I’ve decided to dedicate myself. Many projects and ideas are now in course or trying to get started, some of them more secret then others. There’s plenty to read and little time to do it. Music is present in my break times, so I can enjoy it properly. Cinema comes only when it’s possible to find a couple of free hours. Friends are part of the schedule whenever possible. This is a phase of change and work.