Diná Silveira de Queirós

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

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. Her novel A Muralha was the basis for the 1968 telenovela A Muralha and for the 2000 television series A Muralha.

In 1961, she was widowed by her first husband. In 1962, she was appointed cultural attaché at the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid, and soon after married again to diplomat Dário Moreira de Castro Alves, with whom she moved to Moscow, in the then Soviet Union. During this period, she wrote chronicles that were later included in the 1969 volume Café da Manhã. In 1964 she returned to Brazil, to return to Europe again two years later, settling in Italy. Dinah died on November 27, 1982 in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

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

External links

Diná Silveira de Queirós at Academia Brasileira de Letras

1911 births

1982 deaths

Brazilian women novelists

Brazilian women short story writers

Chroniclers

Brazilian children's writers

Brazilian women children's writers

Brazilian women biographers

Writers from São Paulo

20th-century Brazilian novelists

20th-century Brazilian women writers

20th-century biographers

20th-century Brazilian short story writers