Dina Salústio is a Cabo Verdean writer of novels, stories, essays, children’s and YA literature, and poetry. A member of the Cabo Verdean Academy of Letters, she was co-recipient of a 2018 English PEN Translation Award for her novel The Madwoman of Serrano (translated by Jethro Soutar), a 2016 Rosalía de Castro Award for Literature in Portuguese from PEN Galicia, and several prestigious Cabo Verdean literary awards.