Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara (born 9 June 1930, Benguela

Benguela

Benguela is a city in western Angola, south of Luanda, and capital of Benguela Province. It lies on a bay of the same name, in 12° 33’ S., 13° 25’ E...

, Angola

Angola

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; died 30 January 1962, Cambambe

Cambambe

Cambambe is a town and municipality in Cuanza Norte Province in Angola. It is the site of a hydroelectric dam on the Cuanza River. Cambambe also contains ruins from the 17th century Portuguese settlement of the area, including the Igreja da Nossa Senhora do Rosário....

, Angola). Created a large poetic output in the Portuguese language

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

. Attended Coimbra and Lisbon Universities. Her husband, the writer Orlando Albuquerque, set about publishing her collected works after her death.

The Alda Lara Prize (in Portuguese, Prémio Alda Lara) was established in her honour.
Paulo de Carvalho

Paulo de Carvalho

Paulo de Carvalho is a Portuguese singer.Carvalho was a member of the band The Sheiks during the 1970s, and participated in the Festival RTP da Canção and Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and 1977...

, a famed Portuguese singer, who has had a strong artistic career, recorded "Preludio/Mãe Negra", a beautiful poem written by Alda Lara. Some other Lara known poemas: Testamento, Presenca Africana, Anuncio, Ronda, Poemas que Escrevia na Areia, etc. ...

Books (posthumous)

• Poemas (1966)
• Tempo da Chuva (1973)
• Poesia (1979)
• Poemas (1984) (her collected poems)