Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese novelist and essayist of partial African descent. She was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1982, but grew up near Lisbon. She completed a PhD in literary theory from the University of Lisbon. She is the author of ''Esse Cabelo [That Hair],'' ''Ajudar a cair'', ''Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso'', ''Pintado com o pé'' and ''A visão das plantas.'' Her writing has appeared in ''granta.com, Blog da Companhia das Letras, Granta Portugal'', ''Serrote'', ''Zum'', ''Pessoa'', ''Ler, Buala,'' and elsewhere. She is a contributor for the Brazilian magazine ''[https://www.quatrocincoum.com.br/br/colunistas/cronica-de-lisboa Quatro Cinco Um]''.

''That Hair'' was released in an English translation by Eric M. B. Becker in 2020. Provided by wikipedia