Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício
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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.[https://catalogo.bnportugal.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=13H9K35A17031.277575&profile=bn&uri=link=3100018~!135563~!3100024~!3100022&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=3&source=~!bnp&term=Patr%C3%ADcio%2C+Maria+Madalena+Trigueiros+de+Martel%2C+1884-%3F&index=AUTHOR "Search : records for: Patrício, Maria Madalena Trigueiros de Martel, 1884-?"]. PORBASE - National Bibliographic Data Base. Accessed on 17 November 2023{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=5938|title=Nomination archive – Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício|website=nobelprize.org|access-date=17 November 2023|date=April 2020}}
Biography
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício was born in Lisbon on 19 April 1884, into an aristocratic family with roots in Pombal.
She married Francisco Ribas Patrício (1869-1960), judge and judge at the Lisbon Court of Appeal.
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.
Selected works
- 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
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External links
- Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício at [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19433254.Maria_Madalena_de_Martel_Patr_cio Goodreads]
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Category:Portuguese women writers
Category:Portuguese women poets
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