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Maria Alice Barroso
Brazilian novelist (1926–2012)
Maria Alice Giudice Barroso Soares (1926—2012) was a Brazilian librarian, novelist and short story writer. Her novel A Name to Kill (1967) won the Walmap Award,[1] and The Untamed Horse Saga (1988) won the 1989 Premio Jabuti.[2] She was also director of the National Book Institute, the National Library of Brazil and the Brazilian National Archives.[3]