She is the only Portuguese writer to be award with the Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores (APE/DGLB) for each of her three successive works of literary fiction; they were for two novels and a short-story collection.
[3] During this period, she was also a film critic for the Final Cut blog,[4] of which she was a founder, and Revista Visão, in which she also developed an online weekly chronicle called "Conversas de Elevador" for two years.
[5] As a jury in ICA, the Portuguese Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, she was a part of the selection process that attributed subsidies to diverse documentaries, films and scripts.
[11] It was subsequently published in Brazil in 2018[12][13] Her first collection of short stories, Pequenos Delírios Domésticos, released in 2017, was the recipient of the Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco APE/CM Vila Nova de Famalicão,[1] the most important short-story award in Portugal, establishing her as the first Portuguese author to be granted APE awards for three works in succession.
The 2015 reprint of José Cardoso Pires Alexandra Alpha includes a preface written by Ana Margarida de Carvalho.