Lívia Sganzerla Jappe

Lívia Sganzerla Jappe is a Brazilian journalist and author. She is a native of Porto Alegre, and studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and the United Nations University in Tokyo. As a journalist she has worked for outlets such as Zero Hora and CNN. She has also taught at the IESB in Brasilia.
Her first published short story was published in 2006. She is best known for her debut novel Cisão which was nominated for the São Paulo Prize for Literature.