Ana Paula Arendt
Ana Paula Arendt (born 1980), pseudonym of R. P. Alencar, is a writer, a poet, and a Brazilian diplomat. She is an author of children books, of screenplays, and of poem collections in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and other languages. She published "Veritas Filia Mendacii Est" and "To Freedom". Among her most recent works are the awarded play in classical verse "The Constituent", the awarded epithalamium "The Venerable Virtues of Man", Poetry reunited (2014-2018), among other books. Editor of books and magazines, especially Itapuan Poetry Magazine, bilingual publication in Portuguese and French. Recently elected for the  Lisbon Academy of Science, Class of Letters, as associate and foreign correspondent, member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and admitted in the Brazilian Veteran Naval Fusiliers Association. She's hepta-granddaughter of D. Barbara de Alencar. She was born and raised in Rondonia. She has lived and moved across many cities of Rondonia, when she was a child, and also in Rio Branco, Acre, where she spent some time at the Kaxarari tribe. Then she moved to Brasilia, and São Paulo, where she settled. As a diplomat, she served in short missions in Geneva, Lisbon, Mexico, and Santiago , and during longer missions in Montevideo, Togo (West Africa), and Honduras (Central America). And many others. And many others. Works. Children's fiction and poetry. Almost all her books are available for free download at the Official website in .pdf. With Davino Sena (Prêmio Fundação Nestlé de Cultura, 1991), Antonio Miranda (Diretor da Biblioteca Nacional de Brasília) Ambassador Raul de Taunay (medalha João Ribeiro, da ABL), Anderson Braga Horta (Diretor Legislativo da Câmara dos Deputados, Prêmio Jabuti, 2001), and Maestro Airan d'Sousa ("Nuestra América", Cúpula do Mercosul, 2010). With Fred Maia (poet and former advisor of former Brazilian Minister of  Culture Gilberto Gil), Dr. João Paulo Dias Pinheiro (representing the historical Library Ferin), and Dr. Artur Anselmo (President of the Academy of Sciences and Class of Letters in Lisbon Poetry debates and declamations. And many other workshops.