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Adriana Carranca is a Brazilian writer and journalist. She started as a reporter at O Estado de São Paulo in 2002. She worked as a reporter until 2013 when she became a columnist for O Estado de São Paulo and later to O Globo. She specializes in international coverage. She was a correspondent in Haiti, Siria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, the Palestine Territories, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Uganda, Iraq and Syria. She was indicated in 2016 as one of the ten most admired journalists in Brazil. She is the co-founder of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism.

She graduated in Social Communication and Journalism at the Universidade Católica de Santos. She has a masters degree in Social Policies and Development by the London School of Economics. and a Masters in Arts degree by Columbia University.

In 2016 she won the award Troféu Mulher Imprensa, honoring Brazilian female journalists every year, by popular vote. In 2014, she won the Prêmio Líbero Badaró de Jornalismo, awarded in the category "International Coverage"; In the following year she won the "Grand Prize" award in the same event, for her reports on the War in Afghanistan.. In 2014 she was the finalist at the Prêmio Esso for her coverage of African wars. In 2015 she was at the center of the acclaimed program Roda Viva, where the interviewee sits in the center of an amphitheatre and several journalists and specialists ask questions in a debate-like model.

As a writer, she won the award in the categories "New Talents" and "Best Informative Book" from the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil (2016), a Brazilian foundation for children's books. She was two times finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti (2016 e 2011). , and won the Jabuti award in 2018 with her book "Entre Sonhos e Dragões" ("Between Dreams and Dragons") in the category Children's Digital.

She also published articles in English at Foreign Policy Magazine, also translated to French at Slate Magazine.

Since 2017, Adriana has moved to New York, USA, where she concluded her Masters of Arts in Journalism at Columbia University in May/2018. She won the Overseas Press Club award and was granted a fellowship at Columbia University, where she contributed to the Global Migration Project. During this period she has published at The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Books

 * O Irã sob o chador (2010), com Márcia Camargos
 * O Afeganistão depois do Talibã (2011)
 * Malala, a menina que queria ir para a escola (2015)

Awards

 * Mulher Imprensa trophy, category “Brazilian Correspondent”, 2016
 * Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil award, categories “Best Informative Book” e “Newcomer Writer” for Malala, a menina que queria ir para a escola, 2016
 * Award O Globo, for "Sexo forte no front contra o Estado Islâmico", at O Globo, category "Series", 2015
 * Prêmio Líbero Badaró de Jornalismo, for "Sudão do Sul: a guerra esquecida", O Estado de São Paulo, category "International Coverage", 2014
 * Prêmio Líbero Badaró de Jornalismo, "Grand Prize", 2013