Maria Teresa Mascarenhas Horta (born May 20, 1937, Lisbon) is a Portuguese writer.[1]
She is bachelor in the Universidade de Lisboa and she has worked as a journalist. She took part of the Portuguese Feminist Movement with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa (the Three Marias) and of the Poesia 61 group.
She has published several writings in journals like Diário de Lisboa, A Capital, República, O Século, Diário de Notícias and Jornal de Letras e Artes, and she has been editor in chief of Mulheres magazine.
She is the daughter of Jorge Augusto da Silva Horta, Bastonary of the Order of the Medicine Doctors of Portugal and University Professor, and his wife D. Carlota Maria Mascarenhas, of the Marquesses of Fronteira, Counts of Torre and Counts of Coculim, and also Marquesses of Alorna (formerly Marquesses de Castelo Novo) and Counts of Assumar.
She is married to Luís Barros and has a son Luís Jorge Horta Barros, born on April 4, 1965, married to Maria Antónia Martins Peças Pereira, and has two sons.