作家、精神分析师
Ninfa Parreiras, Author, psychoanalyst. Ninfa Parreiras was born in Itaúna, Minas Gerais, and has lived in Rio de Janeiro for more than 15 years. She is the author of children’s literature: With the tide and the dream; The old lady of the coconuts; A sea of people; Things that come, things that go away; A roof of heaven and The enchanted hill. Master in Comparative Literature by the University of São Paulo – USP (2006), with the research: “Psychoanalysis of Toy in Literature for Children”. Graduated in Letters (1988) and in Psychology (1997), by Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC) – Rio de Janeiro. She is a Psychoanalyst of the Society of Psychoanalysis Iracy Doyle, Rio de Janeiro. Ninfa works in two different areas, marked by the presence of the word and subjectivity – Literature and Psychoanalysis; as a specialist in the National Foundation for Children and Youth Book (FNLIJ), since 1987. She is a teacher at Estação das Letras, RJ (since 2003) and is psychoanalyst at a clinic for children and adults. She is member of Letra Falante, a research group in children’s literature. She is the mother of three children.
