Maria Adelaide Amaral (born 1 July 1942) is a Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. A good deal of her plays concern disaffected urban professionals.The Cambridge history of Latin American literature: Brazilian ..., Volume 2 by Roberto González Echevarrı́a, pg 307 She has been classed as one of the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Leilah Assunção.Tentative transgressions: homosexuality, AIDS, and the theater in Brazil by Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque, pg 32
In 1994, Maria Adelaide Amaral biographed the Brazilian comedian Dercy Gonçalves. The book was titled Dercy de Cabo a Rabo. In 2012, Amaral adapted this book into the miniseries Dercy de Verdade.
Despite her work as writer, she is perhaps best known to the public as an author of telenovelas, including the 2010 remake of Ti Ti Ti.Ti-Ti-Ti page at Rede Globo (In Portuguese)
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