title: Anajá Caetano
text: # Anajá Caetano
  
  Anajá Caetano was an Afro-Brazilian writer who wrote about slavery, religion and discrimination. Caetano was the first woman to write a novel in 20th-century Brazil.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Caetano was born in São Sebastião do Paraíso in Brazil. She was of Angolan descent, specifically of the Chokwe people.
  
  Caetano wrote about Afro-Brazilians, including slavery, religion and discrimination.
  
  Her book Negra Efigênia, paixão do senhor branco (OCLC 253500853) was published in 1966. It was the first novel written and published by a woman in Brazil in the 20th century. The novel, set in the 19th century, examines the life of Iphigenia, an enslaved woman who is kidnapped by a white farmer to be his wife.
  
  