Lúcia Machado de Almeida
Lúcia Machado de Almeida (1910 – April 30, 2005[1]) was a Brazilian writer. She was born at a farm Nova Granja, in São José da Lapa city, state of Minas Gerais. She moved to Belo Horizonte, when she was a child. After that, she studied until High School at Santa Maria school, in the same city. She learnt English, French, history of arts and music.
She had three siblings: Aníbal Machado, Paulo Machado and Carolina Machado, all of whom are writers. Her husband is brother of another writer, the poet Guilherme de Almeida.
Her first published writing was a poem, "Desencanto", which appeared in the Estado de Minas newspaper,when she was fourteen years old. Some year later, she published her first book which is called Estórias do Fundo do Mar. She won a number of literary prizes such as Othon Bezerra de Mello Prize and Stella della Solidarietá Medal.
Bibliography
- Estórias do Fundo do Mar (Histories of under the sea)
- Lendas da Terra do Ouro (Miths of the gold's land)
- O Caso da Borboleta Atíria, novel (The case of the Atiria butterfly)
- O Escaravelho do Diabo, novel (The devil's scarab)
- Passeio a Sabará (Sabarás's walk)
- Passeio a Diamantina (Diamantina's walk)
- Xisto no Espaço, novel (Xisto in the space)
- Xisto e o Saca-Rolha, novel (Xisto and the corkscrew)
- Aventuras de Xisto, novel (Xisto's adwenture)
- Passeio a Ouro Preto, novel (Ouro Preto's walk)
- Passeio ao Alto Minho, novel(Alto Minho's Walk)
- Spharion, novel (Spharion)
O escaravelho do diabo is another book that she wrote.
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