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25 Jul 2025

First Black woman elected to Brazil's Academy of Letters

On July 10 Ana Maria Gonçalves was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), becoming the first Black woman in its 128-year history. She is a novelist best known for Um defeito de cor.

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