The Prime Minister recalls the Portuguese writer’s struggle for the “valorization of women”. Maria Teresa Horta, the last of “Three Marys”, died on Tuesday at the age of 87 in Lisbon.
The prime minister recalled writer Maria Teresa Horta this Tuesday as an “important example of freedom and struggle for the valorization of women”, addressing condolences to her family, friends and readers.
at 87, in Lisbon, announced the publisher Dom Quixote.
“Maria Teresa Horta leaves in our history an important example of freedom and fight for the appreciation of the woman’s place. In my personal name and the government, I leave to family, friends and readers felt condolences,” reads in a publication made by Luís Montenegro on the social network ‘x’.
In a statement sent by Don Quixote publisher is “the disappearance of one of the most notable and admirable personalities” of contemporary Portugal, “recognized defender of women’s rights and freedom, at a time when it was not always easy to assume it, author of a work that will be forever in the memory of several generations of readers. “
In December, Maria Teresa Horta was included in a list prepared by the British BBC public station of 100 most influential and inspiring women from around the world, which included artists, activists, lawyers or scientists.
Left a legacy
In 2022, in the 50th anniversary of the work “New Portuguese Letters”, written with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa, Maria Teresa Horta stated, in an interview with Lusa, that the book was always disregarded in Portugal and was confessed “perplexed” with the interest raised five decades after publication.
“New Portuguese letters”, written by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, from the love letters directed at a French officer by Mariana Alcoforado, was a libel against the pre-pre-ideology in the pre-period April 25, which denounced the colonial war, the oppressions to which women were subject, a persecutory judicial system, emigration and fascist violence.
It began to be written in May 1971 and was published in April 1972, having been banned by the dictatorship and its authors taken to trial.
The book that took over as a milestone in the history of feminism, Portuguese literature, opposition to the regime and the struggle for freedom, after passing the troubled period that involved its publication, crossed decades almost as a nonexistence in Portugal, then considered it, then considered, then , Maria Teresa Horta, in statements to Lusa, adding not to understand this situation.
