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Violante F. Magalhães earned her PhD in Literary Studies from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, and is an associate professor at the João de Deus Higher School of Education.
She has published several books and articles about reading, children's and young adult literature, Portuguese literature, and the didactics of Portuguese.
She is also the vice president of the Portuguese Association of Literary Critics.
The 'fiction effect' in youth reading
In a 2019 study, based on PISA data analysis on reading, researchers John Jerrim and Gemma Moss concluded that there is a consistent relationship between the highest scores obtained and the frequent reading of narrative fiction books. However, the same does not apply to reading magazines, comic books, non-fiction books, or newspapers. There is, therefore, a salutary fiction effect that cannot be overlooked, making it urgent to encourage young people to read this type of text.