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
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
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
- 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
- 1 2 3 "Search : records for: Patrício, Maria Madalena Trigueiros de Martel, 1884-?". PORBASE - National Bibliographic Data Base. Accessed on 17 November 2023
- 1 2 "Nomination archive – Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício". nobelprize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
External links
- Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício at Goodreads