The writer Maria Teresa Horta.
Writer Maria Teresa Horta died on Tuesday at the age of 87 in Lisbon. It was the last of the “Three Marys” that was still alive.
It is “one Loss of incalculable dimensions For Portuguese literature, for poetry, journalism and feminism, to whom Maria Teresa Horta proudly dedicated much of her life, ”tells the writer’s editor, Don Quixote, in the statement sent to Lusa.
Maria Teresa Horta’s death results in the “disappearance of one of the most notable and admirable personalities”From contemporary Portugal, the publisher also highlights.
The writer is “author of a work that will be forever in the memory of several generations of readers” and is still recognized as a “Defender of Women’s Rights and Freedom“, Highlights the publisher.
The last of the “Three Marias”
Maria Teresa Horta, along with and, writers also deceased, was part of the group known as the “Three Marias”.
The three writers were judged during the Estado Novo, due to the joint work “New Portuguese letters” which was censored by the dictatorship of Salazar.
The trial was reported by various international media (including Le Monde, Time, The New York Times, Nouvel Observateur and American televisions) and led to feminist manifestations in several Portuguese embassies abroad.
There were also several international personalitiessuch as Marguerite Duras, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch and Delphine Seyrig, to publicly defend the work and the authors.
The trip to the “Three Marias” court was considered The first international feminist cause In a vote at the National Organization for Women (Now) conference in Boston, June 1973.
The case was symbolic in Sea do regime de Salazar which took place with the Revolution of April 25, 1974.