Diná Silveira de Queirós

Dinah Silveira Ribeiro (also known as Diná Silveira de Queirós; November 9, 1911 November 27, 1982), was a Brazilian writer of novels, short stories, and chronicles. She received the Machado de Assis Prize.

Diná Silveira de Queirós
BornDinah Silveira Ribeiro
(1911-11-09)November 9, 1911
São Paulo
DiedNovember 27, 1982(1982-11-27) (aged 71)
Rio de Janeiro
Occupationwriter
NationalityBrazilian

Silveira de Queirós was born November 9, 1911, in São Paulo. She published her main works between 1939 and 1955. Silveira de Queirós was a Machado de Assis Prize laureate and the "second woman to be elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters". She died November 27, 1982, in Rio de Janeiro.[1] Her novel A Muralha was the basis for the 1968 telenovela A Muralha and for the 2000 television series A Muralha.

Selected works

  • 1939 - Floradas na Serra, novel
  • 1941 - A Sereia Verde, short stories
  • 1949 - Margarida La Rocque, novel
  • 1951 - As Aventuras do Homem Vegetal, children's fiction
  • 1954 - A Muralha, novel
  • 1956 - O Oitavo Dia, play
  • 1957 - As Noite do Morro do Encanto, short stories
  • 1960 - Era Uma Vez Uma Princesa, biography
  • 1960 - Eles Herdarão a Terra, short stories
  • 1965 - Os Invasores, novel
  • 1966 - A Princesa dos Escravos, biography
  • 1968 - Verão dos Infiéis, novel
  • 1969 - Comba Malina, short stories
  • 1969 - Café da Manhã, chronicle
  • 1974 - Eu Venho, Memorial do Cristo I
  • 1977 - Eu, Jesus, Memorial do Cristo II
  • 1979 - Baía de Espuma, children's fiction
  • 1981 - Guida, Caríssima Guida, novel

Co-authored works

  • 1960 - Antologia Brasileira de Ficção-científica, short stories
  • 1961 - Histórias do Acontecerá, short stories
  • 1962 - O Mistério dos MMM, novel
  • 1962 - Quadrante 1, chronicle
  • 1963 - Quadrante 2, chronicle

References

  1. Sadlier, Darlene Joy (1 January 1992). One Hundred Years After Tomorrow: Brazilian Women's Fiction in the 20th Century. Indiana University Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 0-253-20699-5.


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