Martha Medeiros (born August 20, 1961, in

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) is a Brazilian writer and journalist. She works as columnist of the ''

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'' and ''

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'' newspapers.

Biography

Born in

in 1961, she's the daughter of José Bernardo Barreto de Medeiros and Isabella Matos de Medeiros. She graduated in 1982 at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (, PUCRS) is a private non-profit Catholic university. With campuses in the Brazilian cities of Porto Alegre and Viamão, it is the largest private university of the state of Rio Grande do S ...

(PUCRS) in Porto Alegre and became journalist for the newspaper

of Porto Alegre and

of Rio de Janeiro. She moved for nine months in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

, and she began to write poems. Coming back to Porto Alegre, she began writing as a journalist also continuing her literary way. ''A Morte Devagar'' (A slow death), one of her poems written in 2000, has for a long time been erroneously attributed to

Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda ( ; ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old an ...

Bibliography

* ''Strip-Tease'' (1985) * ''Meia noite e um quarto'' (1987) * ''Persona non grata'' (1991) * ''Con Cara Lavada'' (1995) * ''Poesia Reunida'' ' (1998) * ''Geração Bivolt'' (1995) * ''Topless'' (1997) * ''Santiago do Cile'' (1996) * ''Trem-Bala'' (1999) * ''Non Stop'' (2000) * ''Cartas Extraviadas e Outros Poemas'' (2000) * ''A Morte Devagar'' (2000) * ''Couch'' (2002); * ''Divã'' (2002) - this piece began a piece acted from

Lilia Cabral Lilia (Latin plural, meaning "lilies" in English; singular, ''lilium'') are pit traps arranged in a quincunx pattern dug by the Roman armies in front of their defences. Frequently they had sharpened stakes set inside them as an extra obstacle to ...

(Mercedes). * ''Montanha-Russa'' (2003) * ''Rollercoaster'' (2003) * ''Esquisita como Eu'' (2004) * ''Selma e Sinatra'' (2005) * 'Tudo que Eu Queria te Dizer'' (2007); * ''Doidas e Santas'' (2008) * ''Fora de Mim'' (2010) * ''Feliz por Nada'' (2011)

References

External links

''A Morte Devagar'' in niilismo.net
Brazilian journalists 1961 births Living people Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni {{brazil-journalist-stub