Rita Ferro (writer)

Ferro began her literary career in 1990, with the publication of the novel O Nó na Garganta, which sold more than 50,000 copies. Since then, she has written more than 20 novels, as well as biographies, youth literature and plays. She has been a judge for literary awards and at film festivals and has published articles in magazines and newspapers, such as Revista LER, the Portuguese edition of Marie Claire, Diário de Notícias and A Capital. She also worked on a television programme for the Portuguese national broadcaster, RTP, and has been on several radio programmes. In 2011 she published her first autobiographical novel, A menina é filha de quem? (Whose daughter is she?), which received the Portuguese PEN Club award for prose fiction in 2012. Ferro also teaches courses in creative writing and has written a television script and two theatrical plays.

Rita Ferro (born 1955) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, playwright and teacher.

Rita Maria Roquette de Quadros Ferro Ochôa was born on 26 February 1955 in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, the daughter of writer and philosopher António Quadros [pt ] and Paulina Roquette Ferro. Her paternal grandmother was the writer Fernanda de Castro  [pt ], and her paternal grandfather was António Ferro a writer, journalist, and politician who was associated with the repressive Estado Novo regime in the mid-20th Century. Ferro studied design, specializing in marketing. Following internships in Brazil, Spain, the USA and the United Kingdom, she taught advertising at the Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa (Institute of Art, Design and Enterprise - IADE), which her father had founded in 1969. She also worked as an advertising writer for Reader’s Digest in Portugal and for other publishers.