Maria Teresa Horta

Maria Teresa Horta
BornMaria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta
(1937-05-20) 20 May 1937 (age 87)
Lisbon, Portugal
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
SpouseLuís de Barros (d. 2019)

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]

  1. ^ As Três Marias: o antes, o depois e o impacto das ‘Novas Cartas Portuguesas’, Comunidade Cultura e Arte 29.07.2018
  2. ^ "Poems from the Portuguese". Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  3. ^ "Biografia". 3 March 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  4. ^ Patrick, Oona; Ellis, Dean (15 April 2014). "Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria". Guernica. Translated by Dean Ellis; Jose Fernandes. Retrieved 18 July 2019.