Maria Helena da Costa Dias

Maria Helena da Costa Dias
Born 1917
Porto Inglês, Maio, Cape Verde
Died 1994
Lisbon, Portugal

Maria Helena Ferreira Chaves da Costa Dias (1917-1994) was a Portuguese writer

Biography

She had her first year of the special architectural course at the Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa from 1935 to 1936, later she joined at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon where she wrote in a cultural journal Horizonte.

She married Augusto da Costa Dias, writer and investigator of Portuguese literature and culture in which she took part. She also adapted and translated several works, some of them of the greatest foreign writers, much of them from the Francophony world predominantly France.

She was the daughter of the inventor Raul Pires Ferreira Chaves, brother of the architect Jorge Ferreira Chaves. She was the nephew of the painter Maria Alexandrina Pires Ferreira Chaves, Olímpio Ferreira Chaves and João Carlos Pires Ferreira Chaves.

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Adaptations, translations and organizations

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