Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel "Raven Black". Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series "Vera" and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series "Shetland". In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
Glória Perez the telenovela "Carmem", another work whose plot was set in Rio de Janeiro. Starring Lucélia Santos, Paulo Betti, among others. Back to Globo, Perez wrote his first miniseries, "Desejo" (1990), which told the story of Anna de Assis and the love triangle who starred with her husband, the writer Euclides da Cunha, and the young Dilermando of Assisi. The cast were Vera Fischer, Tarcisio Meira and Guilherme Fontes, among others. Then, still in 1990, she wrote her first telenovela alone, "Barriga de Aluguel" (1990). The plot presented the story of the couple Ana and Zeca, played by Cassia Kis Magro