Maria Teresa Horta
{{Short description|Portuguese journalist and activist (1937–2025)}}
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Maria Teresa de Mascarenhas Horta Barros[https://comunidadeculturaearte.com/as-tres-marias-o-antes-o-depois-e-o-impacto-das-novas-cartas-portuguesas/ As Três Marias: o antes, o depois e o impacto das ‘Novas Cartas Portuguesas’, Comunidade Cultura e Arte 29.07.2018] (20 May 1937 – 4 February 2025) was a Portuguese feminist poet, journalist and activist.{{cite web|url=http://www.poemsfromtheportuguese.org/SmartURL/Maria_Teresa_Horta|title=Poems from the Portuguese|accessdate=31 March 2011}} She is one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), together with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa. The authors, known as the "Three Marias," were arrested, jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dglb.pt/sites/DGLB/Portugues/autores/Paginas/PesquisaAutores1.aspx?AutorId=10201 |title=Biografia |date=3 March 2016 |access-date=2020-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204948/http://www.dglb.pt/sites/DGLB/Portugues/autores/Paginas/PesquisaAutores1.aspx?AutorId=10201 |archive-date=2016-03-03 }} The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation groups in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution.{{cite journal |last1=Patrick |first1=Oona |last2=Ellis |first2=Dean |translator1=Dean Ellis|translator2=Jose Fernandes|title=Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria |journal=Guernica |date=15 April 2014 |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/the-third-maria/ |accessdate=18 July 2019}}
Early life and career
Horta had a bachelor's degree from the Universidade de Lisboa and worked as a journalist. She took part in the Portuguese Feminist Movement with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa (the Three Marias) and was a member of the Poesia 61 group.
Her writing has been published in such journals as Diário de Lisboa, A Capital, República, O Século, Diário de Notícias and Jornal de Letras e Artes, and she was editor in chief of Mulheres magazine.{{cite web|access-date=2020-09-06|date=2 December 2008|title=Maria Teresa Horta|url=http://www.mulheres-ps20.ipp.pt/Maria_Teresa_Horta%20.htm#Biografia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202120841/http://www.mulheres-ps20.ipp.pt/Maria_Teresa_Horta%20.htm#Biografia |archive-date=2008-12-02 }}
The Three Marias (she and Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa) are among the 50 Portuguese authors selected by António M. Feijó, João R. Figueiredo and Miguel Tamen, professors and essayists from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, to appear in the book O Cânone published by Tinta da China in 2020.{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-03|first=Luís Miguel|language=pt|last=Queirós|title=Um cânone da literatura portuguesa que quer valer pelos argumentos|url=https://www.publico.pt/2020/10/15/culturaipsilon/noticia/canone-literatura-portuguesa-quer-valer-argumentos-1935304|website=PÚBLICO}}
The Portuguese Ministry of Culture awarded her the Medal of Cultural Merit in 2020.{{cite web|access-date=2020-11-03|language=pt|last=Lusa|title=Escritora Maria Teresa Horta distinguida com Medalha de Mérito Cultural|url=https://www.publico.pt/2020/11/03/culturaipsilon/noticia/escritora-maria-teresa-horta-distinguida-medalha-merito-cultural-1937721|website=PÚBLICO}}
In 2021 she was awarded the Casino da Póvoa Literary Prize 2021, at the Correntes d'Escritas literature festival, for her work Estranhezas.{{cite web|access-date=2021-02-26|date=26 February 2021|language=pt|title=Maria Teresa Horta vence prémio literário Correntes d'Escritas 2021|url=https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/cultura/1698162/maria-teresa-horta-vence-premio-literario-correntes-d-escritas-2021|website=Notícias ao Minuto}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-02-26|date=26 February 2021|language=pt-PT|title=Maria Teresa Horta é a vencedora do Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa|url=https://www.cm-pvarzim.pt/noticias/maria-teresa-horta-e-a-vencedora-do-premio-literario-casino-da-povoa/|website=C.M. da Póvoa de Varzim}} In the same year, she was honored at the International Literary Festival of the Interior, created in honor of the victims of the 2017 fires.{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-03|date=4 June 2021|title=Manuel Alegre, Maria Teresa Horta e Carlos de Oliveira em destaque no Festival Literário Internacional do Interior|url=https://www.jornaldeleiria.pt/noticia/manuel-alegre-maria-teresa-horta-e-carlos-de-oliveira-em-destaque-no-festival-literario-internacional-do-interior|website=Jornal de Leiria}}
On 21 April 2022, she was awarded the degree of Grand Officer of the Order of Liberty.{{cite web|access-date=2022-06-21|department=Resultado da busca de "Maria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta"|publisher=Presidência da República Portuguesa|title=Entidades Nacionais Agraciadas com Ordens Portuguesas|url=http://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=153}}
Personal life and death
Horta was the daughter of Jorge Augusto da Silva Horta, Bastonary of the Ordem dos Médicos (General Medical Council of Portugal) and a university professor, and his wife D. Carlota Maria Mascarenhas, of the Marquesses of Fronteira, Counts of Torre and Counts of Coculim, and also Marquesses of Alorna (formerly Marquesses of Castelo Novo) and Counts of Assumar.
She was married to Luís Barros, until his death in 20 November 2019. Her son, Luís Jorge Horta Barros, born on 4 April 1965, is married to Maria Antónia Martins Peças Pereira and has two sons, Bé and Tiago Horta Barros.
Horta died in Lisbon on 4 February 2025, at the age of 87.[https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/cultura/morreu-a-escritora-maria-teresa-horta_n1632018 Morreu a escritora Maria Teresa Horta] {{in lang|pt}}
Awards
In December 2024, Maria Teresa Horta was included on the BBC's 100 Women list.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/resources/idt-4f79d09b-655a-42f8-82b4-9b2ecebab611|title=BBC 100 Women 2024: Who is on the list this year?|publisher=BBC|date=3 December 2024|accessdate=3 December 2024 |language=}}
Works
- Espelho Inicial (1960) (poetry)
- Tatuagem (1961)
- Cidadelas Submersas (1961)
- Verão Coincidente (1962)
- Amor Habitado (1963)
- Candelabro (1964)
- Jardim de Inverno (1966)
- Cronista Não é Recado (1967)
- Minha Senhora de Mim (1967) (poetry)
- Ambas as Mãos sobre o Corpo (1970)
- Novas Cartas Portuguesas (1971)
- Ana (1974)
- Poesia Completa I e II (1983)
- Os Anjos (1983)
- O Transfer (1984)
- Ema (1984)
- Minha Mãe, Meu Amor (1984)
- Rosa Sangrenta (1987)
- Antologia Política (1994)
- A Paixão Segundo Constança H. (1994)
- O Destino (1997)
- A Mãe na Literatura Portuguesa (1999)
- As Luzes de Leonor (2011){{cite web |url=http://ipsilon.publico.pt/livros/texto.aspx?id=310469 |title=Maria Teresa Horta recusa-se a receber Prémio D. Dinis das mãos de Passos Coelho |author=Lusa |author-link=Lusa news agency |date=18 September 2012|accessdate= 19 September 2012|work=ipsilon.publico.pt|language=Portuguese}}
- As Palavras do Corpo – Antologia de Poesia Erótica (2012)
- A Dama e o Unicórnio (2013)
- Anunciações (2016)
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- [http://puritan-magazine.com/seven-poems-from-poesia-reunida-collected-poetry-translated-by-dean-thomas-ellis/ "Seven Poems from Poesia Reunida (Collected Poetry)"]. Trans. Dean Thomas Ellis, The Puritan # 25 (Spring 2014 Supplement).
- [https://tworiverspress.com/shop/point-of-honour/ Point of Honour: Selected Poems of Maria Teresa Horta]. Trans. Lesley Saunders. (Two Rivers Press Ltd, 2019) {{ISBN|978-1-909747-47-0}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name| 5157660}}
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maria_Teresa_Horta
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