Maria Velho da Costa

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Maria de Fátima de Bívar Velho da Costa (born Lisbon, June 26, 1938) is a Portuguese writer who was awarded the Camões Prize in 2002. She took part of the Portuguese Feminist Movement with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Teresa Horta (the so-called three Marys).

She is the only daughter of Afonso Jaime de Bívar Moreira de Brito Velho da Costa by second wife Julieta Vaz Monteiro da Assunção.

She married Adérito de Oliveira Sedas Nunes (1928 – 1992), a Minister, son of Élio Sedas Nunes and wife Maria de Oliveira, at the Church of São Tiago, in São Tiago, Lisbon, in 1962, and they had one son, João Afonso de Bívar Sedas Nunes (b. Lisbon, 1964), unmarried and without issue.

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O Lugar Comum. 1966
Maina Mendes. 1969
Ensino Primário e Ideologia. 1972
Novas Cartas Portuguesas. (with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Isabel Barreno) 1972
Desescrita. 1973
Cravo. 1976
Português; Trabalhador; Doente Mental. 1977
Casas Pardas. 1977
Da Rosa Fixa. 1978
Corpo Verde. 1979
Lucialima. 1983
O Mapa Cor de Rosa. 1984
Missa in Albis. 1988
Das Áfricas. (with José Afonso Furtado) 1991
Dores. (short stories, with Teresa Dias Coelho) 1994