Maria Adelaide Amaral is a Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. A good deal of her plays concern disaffected urban professionals. She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Leilah Assunção

Leilah Assunção

Leilah Assunção, or Leilah Assumpção is a Brazilian dramatist, actress and writer. She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Maria Adelaide Amaral....

. Although she is perhaps best known to the public as an author of telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

s, with her most recent work being as creator of Ti Ti Ti

Ti Ti Ti (2010)

Ti Ti Ti is a Brazilian telenovela that originally aired on Rede Globo from July 19, 2010 to March 17, 2011. Based on the 1985 telenovela Ti Ti Ti, written by Cassiano Gabus Mendes, the remake is created and written by Maria Adelaide Amaral...

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