Simone Campos


Simone Campos is a Brazilian writer and translator.
WWW simonecampos.net

Life and career

Campos debuted in writing at age 17, with the book No Shopping. She graduated in journalism and editing at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has a master's degree and a doctorate in literary theory at Rio de Janeiro State University.
She published her second book, A feia noite in 2006, and the online science fiction novel Penados y Rebeldes. She received the Petrobras scholarship for Literary Creation in 2007, with which she published the book of short stories Amostragem Complexa. In 2013, she published the gamebook OWNED - Um Novo jogador, in online and physical versions, also financed by the Petrobras grant.
She also wrote the novels A vez de morrer and Nada vai acontecer com você .
Campos translated to Portuguese, among other books, Paula Hawkins' The Girl in the Train, Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, and The Secret History of Twin Peaks, by Mark Frost.
In a 2021 interview, Campos announced that she was autistic.