Mayra Dias Gomes
| Mayra Dias Gomes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 15, 1987 (age 29) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Novelist, media personality, reporter |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Spouse | Coyote Shivers (m. 2010) |
Mayra Dias Gomes (born December 15, 1987) is a Brazilian author, reporter, and media personality.
Mayra Dias Gomes is a Brazilian writer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro and went to the American School of Rio de Janeiro until she was fifteen years old, where she learned to speak and write in English. She is the oldest daughter of acclaimed playwright Dias Gomes and actress Bernadeth Lyzio, and goddaughter of writers Jorge Amado and Zélia Gattai. Mayra grew up in an artistic environment focused on literature, theatre and television and started writing when she was still a child. She began writing in diaries, where she would detail her life on a daily basis, since she was eight years old. While she was a kid, her favorite activities included writing and producing scripts and plays, and writing music as well.
Mayra wrote her first book, “Fugalaça”, when she was seventeen years old. At age nineteen, her book was published by Editora Record (the largest publishing company in Latin America.) Mayra wrote “Fugalaça” while she was battling with depression. The author revealed that she went through a catharsis while working on her first novel. The book became an immediate phenomenon amongst Brazilian teenagers and a portrait of a generation unable to deal with frustrations. Satine, the narrator, is the author’s alter ego. Both suffered with the sudden death of their father during pre-adolescence and became involved with a world of drugs, obsessive and destructive relationships and rock’n’roll. The book is forwarded by acclaimed Brazilian writer Fernanda Young. In 2014, “Fugalaça” was published by Arara-Verlag at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in Germany, under the title “Brazilian Underground: Die Geschichte von Satine”.
In her second novel, “Mil e Uma Noites de Silêncio” (“One Thousand and One Nights of Silence”), the author wrote about a fictional character, Clara, a lonely girl who searches for a human bond. Abandoned by her biological parents, stood up by her fiancé on her wedding day, and an orphan due to the death of her adoptive mother, Clara is a lifeless, depressed girl. Her days drag with no motivation and living is nothing but a meaningless ritual. Scarred by abandonment, she is unable to integrate in society and is a collector of sleepless nights. When she goes through yet another heartbreak, Clara decides to take control of her life and travels to the city of Bangônia, in search of an idealistic friend she once had. There, besides Camille, Clara finds herself in a world of prostitution, drug trafficking and glam rock, finding her own lost youth and breaking her own taboos. The forward is by Brazilian author Santiago Nazarian.
In 2012, Mayra published her first book, “Dias Gomes”, alongside her sister Luana Dias Gomes and their mother, Bernadeth Lyzio. The book is a collection of interviews given by their father, Dias Gomes, from the sixties to his death in 1999, and show the evolution of his ideas, while reflecting on the changes that occurred in Brazil during that period. In 2015, Editora Record published Mayra’s third novel, “Finalmente Famosa” (“Finally Famous”), a suspense thriller based in a real murder that occurred at the Hollywood Hillview, on the Walk of Fame, the building where Mayra first lived when she moved to Hollywood in 2010. The forward is signed by renowned Brazilian television writer Gloria Perez.
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