Patrícia Melo (born 1962 in São Paulo)[1] is a Brazilian author.
[2] Her works have dealt with sex and violence in a heavily urbanized setting.
[3][4] She made her literary debut in 1994 with Acqua Toffana, and in 2001 she won the Jabuti Prize for Literature for her novel Inferno,[5] as well as several international awards.
In 1999, she was included by Time magazine among the five best Latin American authors of the new millennium.
[6] Her works have been sold to England, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, Spain and China, among other countries.