Juliana Barbassa was born in Brazil, but she had a nomadic life between her home country and Iraq, Malta, Libya, Spain, France, and the United States before settling in Switzerland. Barbassa began her career with the Dallas Observer, where she won a Katie Journalism Award in 1999. She joined the Associated Press in 2003, and after two more awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the APME, she returned to Brazil in 2010 as the AP's Rio de Janeiro correspondent. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God is her first book.
"In a book that's akin to Charlie LeDuff's Detriot, Barbassa
combines history and personal interviews in an informative and
engaging work, showing a nation whose people desire a better
country but are at odds with the government and even themselves at
the best way to achieve that result."-- "Library Journal"
Returning to Rioafter years abroad, Juliana Barbassa takes the
reader on a journey of urbanexploration beyond the tourist clichés
of Ipanema and Carnival. Her book, Dancingwith the Devil in the
City of God, seamlessly melds deep reporting withnuanced memoir,
providing an insider's guide to a global city of immenseenergy,
appetites, heartbreak and danger. To understand Rio's prospects for
the21st century, come with Barbassa on her voyage of inquiry
andrediscovery. It's a trip worth taking. I savored every
moment.--Ambassador Derek Shearer, Director of the McKinnon Center
for Global Affairs, Occidental College, Los Angeles
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