Queiroz, Dinah Silveira de (1910–1983)
Queiroz, Dinah Silveira de (1910–1983)
Dinah Silveira de Queiroz (b. 9 November 1910; d. 1983), Brazilian fiction writer. From the 1940s to the 1960s Queiroz was one of Brazil's most popular novelists. She was the second woman to be elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1980). From a São Paulo literary family, Queiroz was a diplomat and a diplomat's wife; she lived for a time in Europe and in Russia. A journalist, she wrote technically skillful and sensitive stories, thus helping innovate Brazilian fiction. She also wrote crônicas (sketches), drama, children's literature, and science fiction. Queiroz received important literary prizes, including the Academy's Machado de Assis Prize for her complete works in 1954. Her fame, however, derived from novel serializations in popular magazines. Her novels Floradas na serra (1939; Blossoms on the Mountain) and A muralha (1954; The Wall) also became successful cinema and television vehicles.
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Additional works by Queiroz are Margarida La Rocque (1949) and Eu, venho (1974), translated as I, Christ, I'm Coming (1977). A muralha was translated by Roberta King as The Women of Brazil (1980). A critical view of her work is Maria Teresa Leal, "Dinah Silveira de Queiroz: An Innovator in Brazilian Literature," in Rice University Studies 66 (1980): 81-88.
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