Maria Teresa de Mascarenhas Horta Barros[1] (born 20 May 1937, Lisbon) is a Portuguese feminist poet, journalist and activist.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
Maria Teresa Horta | |
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| Born | Maria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta 20 May 1937 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
| Spouse | Luís de Barros (d. 2019) |
Biography
editShe has a bachelor's degree from the Universidade de Lisboa and has 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.[5]
The Three Marias (her 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.[6]
The Portuguese Ministry of Culture awarded her with the Medal of Cultural Merit in 2020.[7]
In 2021 she was awarded the Casino da Póvoa Literary Prize 2021, at the Correntes d'Escritas literature festival, for her work Estranhezas.[8][9] 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.[10]
On 21 April 2022, she was awarded the degree of Grand Officer of the Order of Liberty.[11]
Family
editShe is 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.
Works
edit- 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)[12]
- As Palavras do Corpo – Antologia de Poesia Erótica (2012)
- A Dama e o Unicórnio (2013)
- Anunciações (2016)
In Translation
edit- "Seven Poems from Poesia Reunida (Collected Poetry)". Trans. Dean Thomas Ellis, The Puritan # 25 (Spring 2014 Supplement).
- Point of Honour: Selected Poems of Maria Teresa Horta. Trans. Lesley Saunders. (Two Rivers Press Ltd, 2019) ISBN 978-1-909747-47-0
References
edit- ^ As Três Marias: o antes, o depois e o impacto das ‘Novas Cartas Portuguesas’, Comunidade Cultura e Arte 29.07.2018
- ^ "Poems from the Portuguese". Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ "Biografia". 3 March 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ Patrick, Oona; Ellis, Dean (15 April 2014). "Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria". Guernica. Translated by Dean Ellis; Jose Fernandes. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "Maria Teresa Horta". 2 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ Queirós, Luís Miguel. "Um cânone da literatura portuguesa que quer valer pelos argumentos". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ Lusa. "Escritora Maria Teresa Horta distinguida com Medalha de Mérito Cultural". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ "Maria Teresa Horta vence prémio literário Correntes d'Escritas 2021". Notícias ao Minuto (in Portuguese). 26 February 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Maria Teresa Horta é a vencedora do Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa". C.M. da Póvoa de Varzim (in European Portuguese). 26 February 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Manuel Alegre, Maria Teresa Horta e Carlos de Oliveira em destaque no Festival Literário Internacional do Interior". Jornal de Leiria. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ "Entidades Nacionais Agraciadas com Ordens Portuguesas". Resultado da busca de "Maria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta". Presidência da República Portuguesa. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ Lusa (18 September 2012). "Maria Teresa Horta recusa-se a receber Prémio D. Dinis das mãos de Passos Coelho". ipsilon.publico.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 September 2012.