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Maria Teresa Horta

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Maria Teresa Horta
BornMaria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta
(1937-05-20)20 May 1937
Lisbon, Portugal
Died4 February 2025(2025-02-04) (aged 87)
Lisbon, Portugal
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
SpouseLuís de Barros (d. 2019)

Maria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta (20 May 1937 – 4 February 2025) was a Portuguese feminist poet, journalist and activist.[1] She was born in Lisbon.

Her writing was 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.

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.[2]

Horta died on 4 February 2025 in Lisbon at the age of 87.[3]

References

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  1. "Poems from the Portuguese". Archived from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. Lusa (2012-09-18). "Maria Teresa Horta recusa-se a receber Prémio D. Dinis das mãos de Passos Coelho". ipsilon.publico.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  3. Morreu a escritora Maria Teresa Horta (in Portuguese)