Silva, Sofia

Filipa Fonseca Silva was born in 1979 in Barreiro, Portugal. She has a degree in Communication by Universidade Catolica Portuguesa and works as an advertising copywriter since 2004. Besides writing she loves painting, collecting shoes and eating watermelon. She lives in Lisbon with her husband, baby and Gucci, the cat. Thirty Something (Nothing's How We Dreamed It Would Be) is her first novel and the original version published in Portugal, has been widely praised.