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. She became the first Portuguese woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, despite being now a largely forgotten writer in her home country.[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]- O Livro do Passado Morto ("The Book of the Dead Past", 1915; republished in 1935)
- Impressões de Arte e de Tristeza ("Impressions of Art and Sadness", 1915)
- Sombras na Estrada ("Shadows on the Road", 1920)
- Poemas da Côr e do Silêncio ("Poems of Color and Silence", 1922)
- Os Sete Demónios ("The Seven Demons", 1926)
- Princesses du Portugal: souveraines de Flandres, 1430-1930 ("Princesses du Portugal: Souvenirs of Flanders, 1430-1930", 1930)
- Sagradas pedras ("Sacred Stones", 1930)
- O Espírito das Eras ("The Spirit of the Ages", 1931)
- Quando Eu Era Pequenina... ("When I Was Little...", 1935)
- Rosário da Vida ("Rosary of Life", 1935)
- O Espírito Medieval ("The Medieval Spirit", 1937)
- A nossa Amiga Lisboa ("Our Friend Lisbon", 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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