Rachel de Queiroz

Rachel de Queiroz was born on 17 November 1910 in Fortaleza, in Ceará, and began in journalism in 1927. Her first novel, in 1930, brought her national fame and, according to eBiografia, the Graça Aranha Foundation prize. A member of the Communist Party in the thirties, she was arrested in 1937 under Vargas; she later broke with the party and in 1964 supported the military coup. A newspaper columnist and translator, she was in 1977 the first woman elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters and received the Camões Prize in 1993. She died in Rio on 4 November 2003.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelO QuinzeRachel de Queiroz · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature