WOMEN WHO INHABIT WORDS – WITH THE AUTHOR ISABELA FIGUEIREDO AND MODERATED BY DÉA PAULINO (READ WOMEN)

Synopsis: Isabela Figueiredo graduated with a degree in Modern Languages and Literature, specialising in Portuguese Studies, from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the New University of Lisbon. She specialised in Women’s Studies at the Open University. She worked as a journalist at *Diário de Notícias* between 1988 and 1994, where she was also editor of the *DN Jovem* supplement. She taught Portuguese at secondary school level. She wrote *Conto É Como Quem Diz*, a novella which won first prize at the Portuguese Arts and Ideas Festival; *Caderno de Memórias Coloniais*, the French edition of which was a finalist for the Femina Foreign Prize; and *A Gorda*, a work which won the Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Literary Prize.