Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício | |
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| Born | 19 April 1884 |
| Died | 3 November 1947 (aged 63) |
| Occupation(s) | novelist, poet |
Maria Madalena Valdez Trigueiros de Martel Patrício (19 April 1884 – 3 November 1947) was a Portuguese novelist and poet who became the first Portuguese woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício was born in Lisbon on 19 April 1884, into an aristocratic family with roots in Pombal.[1]
She married Francisco Ribas Patrício (1869-1960), judge and judge at the Lisbon Court of Appeal.[1]
She died on 3 November 1947.
Nobel Prize in Literature[edit]
Maria Magdalena became the first Portuguese woman to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature for the first time in 1934 by Bento Carqueja, a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. She also became the second most nominated Portuguese, having been nominated a total of 14 times over the 15 years (1934, 1935 and from 1937 to 1947) after the poet António Correia de Oliveira.[2]
Selected works[edit]
- Le Livre du Passé Mort (1915)
- Impressões de Arte e de Tristeza (1915)
- Sombras na Estrada (1920)
- Poemas da Côr e do Silêncio (1922)
- Os Sete Demónios (1926)
- Princesses du Portugal: souveraines de Flandres, 1430-1930 (1930)
- Sagradas pedras (1930)
- L'Esprit des Siécles (1931)
- Quando Eu Era Pequenina... (1935)
- Rosário da Vida (1935)
- Le Livre du Passé Mort (1935)
- O Espírito Medieval (1937)
- Le Rosaire de la Vie (1938)
- A nossa Amiga Lisboa (1944)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Search : records for: Patrício, Maria Madalena Trigueiros de Martel, 1884-?". PORBASE - National Bibliographic Data Base. Accessed on 17 November 2023
- ^ a b "Nomination archive – Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício". nobelprize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
External links[edit]
- Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício at Goodreads
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