Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez

Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez (born 1958) is a Portuguese writer.

She studied in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and was a Portuguese teacher from 1982 to 1997. She has published many books, includingGaspar & Mariana, A Fonte dos Segredos, O Guarda da Praia, O Incendiário Misterioso, Cartas de Beatriz, as well as being the author of the Profissão: Adolescente collection, with 13 books and over 300,000 copies sold. Together with Maria do Rosário Pedreira, she is also a co-author of O Clube das Chaves, a collection with 21 books which has been adapted to a television series. Her most successful book is A Lua de Joana, with 220,000 copies sold (which has been translated into German, Bulgarian, Chinese, Spanish and Albanian).