A journalist and screenwriter, Rosa Aneiros is best known as a writer of adult and young adult fiction. She won prizes for her novels Resistance (2002), about two lovers involved in the resistance to the twentieth-century dictatorship in Portugal, The Sea Came to See Me (2004), about a biologist confronting the Prestige oil spill, and Winter Sun (2009), about a woman who escapes the Spanish Civil War and has to face the voices and wounds of exile. As a children’s writer, she caught attention with her novel Butterfly Wings (2009), with its cast of international characters, and most recently with the trilogy I Love You Leo A. (2013-4)… read more