Maria Isabel Barreno

Maria Isabel Barreno de Faria Martins GOIH (10 July 1939 – 3 September 2016)[1] was a Portuguese writer.

Maria Isabel Barreno
BornMaria Isabel Barreno
(1939-07-10)10 July 1939
Lisbon, Portugal
Died3 September 2016(2016-09-03) (aged 77)
OccupationWriter
LanguagePortuguese
NationalityPortuguese

Biography

Born in Lisbon, she studied College of Letters at the Universidade de Lisboa, where she graduated in Historico-Philosophical Sciences.

She dedicated herself to the cause of feminism, taking part in the Portuguese feminist movement together with the writers Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, the "Three Marias" (Três Marias).

On 8 March 2004, she was made a Grand Official in the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique.[2]

Barreno died on 3 September 2016 at the age of 77.[3]

Works
  • Adaptação do Trabalhador de Origem Rural ao Meio Industrial Urbano (1966)
  • A Condição da Mulher Portuguesa (1968) (collaboration)
  • De Noite as Árvores São Negras (1968)
  • Os Outros Legítimos Superiores (1970)
  • Novas Cartas Portuguesas (1971) (co-authored with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa)
  • A Morte da Mãe (1972)
  • A Imagem da Mulher na Imprensa (1976)
  • Inventário de Ana (1982)
  • Contos Analógicos (1983)
  • Sinos do Universo (1984)
  • Contos (1985)
  • Célia e Celina (1985)
  • O Outro Desbotado (1986)
  • O Falso Neutro (1989)
  • O Direito ao Presente (1990)
  • Crónica do Tempo (1991) – winner of the Fernando Namora Prize
  • O enviado (1991)
  • O Chão Salgado (1992)
  • Os Sensos Incomuns (1993) – winner of the Prémio P.E.N. Clube Português de Ficção, and the Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco[4]
  • O Senhor das Ilhas (1994)
  • As Vésperas Esquecidas (1999)

References
  1. Coutinho, Isabel (3 September 2016). "Morreu Maria Isabel Barreno, uma das "Três Marias"". Publico (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-09-03.
  2. "CIDADÃOS NACIONAIS AGRACIADOS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS". www.ordens.presidencia.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-09-03.
  3. Salvador, João Miguel; Delimbeuf, Katya; Soares, Manuela Goucha (September 3, 2016). "Morreu Maria Isabel Barreno, voz singular da igualdade". Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-09-03.
  4. "Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco". www.cm-vnfamalicao.pt (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2011-03-05. Retrieved 2016-09-03.


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