Carolina Maria: Scrap Collector and Brazil’s First Best-Selling Author

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Issue Mar 13-19 2024: Known as the “star of the favela,” Carolina Maria (1914-1977) was a Brazilian writer who shed light on the daily existence of the country’s mid-century underclass, writing profusely even as she scraped out a meager existence as a scrap collector for her and her children.

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