Cecília Meireles

Cecília Meireles was born on 7 November 1901 in Rio de Janeiro; her father had died before her birth and her mother in her early childhood, and she was raised by her Portuguese grandmother. A teacher in the public schools, she ran the education page of a Rio daily from 1930 to 1933 and defended the public, secular school, according to the journal Pesquisa, which also cites her translations of Tagore and García Lorca. In 1934 she founded the country's first children's library, gave lectures in Portugal the same year and taught at the University of Rio. She died in Rio on 9 November 1964.

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• PoetryRomanceiro da InconfidênciaCecília Meireles · 1953not translated into EnglishLiterature