Laura Malin

'Laura Malin' (qv) was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1974, the only child of Ana Maria B. Malin and Mauro Malin. Laura moved to Santa Barbara (California) and Paris in her early childhood. She returned to Brazil in 1980, when she wrote her first (still unpublished) book "The Case of the Punjabi List" to give as a Christmas present to her family.At age of 15, Laura spent the summer of 1990 in a kibbutz, in Israel, and the following year she returned to France to pursue her studies in French literature. Once there, she unveiled another passion while attending the Cannes Film Festival: cinema. In 1997, she graduated in Journalism from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.During the early 1990's Laura worked as a translator and journalist. In 1998, she moved back to California to study writing and screenwriting at UC Berkeley and then settled in Los Angeles for a couple of years.Back in Brazil, Laura gave birth to two daughters, Luisa (2001) and Alice (2003), from her relationship with actor 'Danton Mello' (qv). They split up in 2004 and the writer moved with her girls to Santa Monica (CA), in 2014. 'Laura Malin' (qv) wrote and published seven books in Brazil.::Clara Pereira