Clara Pinto-Correia is a Portuguese-born novelist, journalist and educator.
The daughter of a physician, she was born in Lisbon and earned a doctorate in cellular biology from the University of Porto.
She was an adjunct professor in Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She wrote a weekly column for the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias.
In 1984, she published her first novel Watercress (Agrião), followed by Goodbye Princess (Adeus, Princesa) in 1985.
[1] Adeus, Princesa was made into a movie in 1992
Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9