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For those who wish to know more about my work here's some covers and short synopsis of my editions in Europe and Brazil
Para quem não conhece as capas dos livros que são editados noutros países, deixo-vos com as imagens e uma pequena sinopse em inglês. Espero que gostem. :)
ESPANHA
SPAIN
This is my third novel and one of the most intimate one. It tells the nostalgic and tender story of three young women trying to get by under the tought circumstances of their lives. It's published in Spain, Holland and Brazil.
Gente como nosotros is one of my thoughful novels. It´s about success, loneliness and fear of two very different sisters who can not accept each other diferences. One is a successful actress and the other is a frustrated house keeper. It´s a plot of fear and solitude.
Mi Querida Ines is my only historic novel. It tells the story of a noble and beautiful spanish lady, Inês de Castro who was caught in a political trap by falling in love with the portuguese prince, D. Pedro. The bad infleunce of her brothers among the future king were puting the kingdom in danger, reason why she was sentenced to death. Inês de Castro is the most romantic myth in portuguese history.
This was my second bestseller. Published in the year 2000, it´s an urban romance about life, love and relationships.
BRASIL:
The Day I Forgot You is my most romanctinc and compelling book. A very passionate woman writes a love letter to his love who lives abroad. This book touched my readers through its sincere and nostalgic prose.
Sei Lá, J'en Sai Rien (France) or Chi lo Sa (Italy) was my fourth bestseller and it tells the story of five girlfriends with very different lives, all searching for love and happiness. Funny, witty and unexpected it soon became a huge bestseller. This title was adapted by me to the cinema. The movie opened in April to very a successful box office.
ALEMANHA
GERMANY
HOLANDA
THE NETHERLANDS
ITÁLIA
ITALY
FRANÇA
Les Filles d'Estoril, is a story about three generations of an old portuguese family, and reflects the evolution of this society over the last 60 years. Secrets, plots and feuds show how a family can be the best and the worst thing in the world.
Margarida Rebelo Pinto is Portugal’s current best-selling author. All of her 11 published novels and four 7 stories books became hits selling 1.5 MILLION copies in a market with a population of ten million.
Her style is comparable to Nick Hornby, and she has become an icon in Portuguese society, respected as an opinion leader and considered a national celebrity.
Margarida Rebelo Pinto’s writing is witty and fluent, easy to read and yet showing different levels of understanding. Her intuitive analysis of behaviour and relationships between men and women told in stories reverberate with the common reader. This is the main reason for a big phenomenon of empathy, making her the most successful novelist of her generation and giving a boost to the book market in Portugal.
Margarida Rebelo Pinto was born in Lisbon in June 1965. She received her Master’s degree in Modern Literature at the University of Lisbon. She has been in the press for the last 25 years as a columnist and became a symbol of her generation. She´s also wrote for Elle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Spanish Vogue, Spanish GQ, in addition to many national newspapers. She was a TV reporter for RTP and presented two talks shows, Rosa Choque, for TVI, and Noites Marcianas, for SIC. Now she´s has her own regular place as a behaviour analyst at the SIC Mulher Channel
She has been signing weekly and monthly columns for the last 25 years in Maxim, Jornal de Notícias, Reader’s Digest and recently on the newspaper SOL. Nowadays she sign a weekly column at the news magazine Flash called Let's Talk about Love
Her first best seller Sei Lá won the Fnac Literary National Award in 2000. She is also the author of two stage plays and two film scripts; one of them is the adaptation of her first novel SEI LA t into the screen by the portuguese director Joaquim Leitãohat was released by April 2014 that turned out to be a success at the the ticket office
After her first best seller, Margarida Rebelo Pinto published 10 more novels, 7 short story books and 2 children’s books.
Her children book's rights royalties are totally .donnated to ACREDITAR a e fondation who provides housing and support for families with children suffreing from cancer.
Since her fisrt novel Sei Lá that went straight to number 1 on the national many other follow the same track. TNothing Happens by Chance, A Bird’s Soul, I’m in Love with a Pop Star, People Like Us and The Journal of your Absence, sof portugal, The Day I Forgot You all over the last years.
By 2011 she merged into a new adventuer by pulishing her first historical Novel My Dearest Ines, the compelling saga of a noble spanish lady who captured the herited prince's heart and whose brothers and entourage represented a serious trheat to the indipendence of Portugal. The tragic execution ordered Inês orded by hisfather in law made her the Most Iconic Romantic Myth of the History of Portugal.
The novel is considered by many readers the deepest and mos thriling among Margarida's work.
Margarida Rebelo Pinto became a portrait and a messenger for her own generation. She was named one of the 25 most influent women in Portuguese contemporary society by the news magazine Grande Reportagem.