One of the best writers i know! Fell in love with her when i read Losses and Gains. Lya Luft’s words have a very special message for us: ignoring outdated theories, she tells us with humor and insight that it is down to us how the dramas of our lives unfold.

**Lya Luft was born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil in 1938. She studied German and English and lectured as a professor of Linguistics in Porto Alegre for many years. She translated Virginia Woolf, Günter Grass and Thomas Mann, among others. With her first novels, highly accredited by the critics, she conquered a large readership, which has remained loyal ever since. Just in Brazil, her books have been selling more than a million copies.

Now i am reading for the second time Pensar é transgredir (“To Think is to Transgress”) and i just can't get enough of her words. She is an amazing woman and a great writer.