Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant
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Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (August 28, 1880 – June 20, 1970) was a Brazilian juvenile writer. She was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais
, Brazil
to a British-Brazilian father and a Portuguese-Brazilian mother. In 1893, at the age of 12, Alice began a diary, an astute, and often amusing, chronicle of daily happenings among her family, servants, and the small mining town, Diamantina. The published diary ends in 1895. As an adult, Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant, by then a social figure in Rio de Janeiro, was married to the writer and also a president of the Banco do Brasil ("Bank of Brazil"), who in 1942 encourage her to publish the diary that appeared as Minha vida de menina under the pseudonym Helena Morley. French Novelist Georges Bernanos admired it, and in the 1950s the American poet, Elizabeth Bishop
, then resident in Brazil, translated it into English as The Diary of Helena Morley.
The book was adapted to film in 2004 by Helena Solberg as Vida de Menina.http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117926509.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810247,00.html#ixzz1E9qvvOk6
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
to a British-Brazilian father and a Portuguese-Brazilian mother. In 1893, at the age of 12, Alice began a diary, an astute, and often amusing, chronicle of daily happenings among her family, servants, and the small mining town, Diamantina. The published diary ends in 1895. As an adult, Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant, by then a social figure in Rio de Janeiro, was married to the writer and also a president of the Banco do Brasil ("Bank of Brazil"), who in 1942 encourage her to publish the diary that appeared as Minha vida de menina under the pseudonym Helena Morley. French Novelist Georges Bernanos admired it, and in the 1950s the American poet, Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
, then resident in Brazil, translated it into English as The Diary of Helena Morley.
The book was adapted to film in 2004 by Helena Solberg as Vida de Menina.http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117926509.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810247,00.html#ixzz1E9qvvOk6
External links
- Online original Portuguese text: http://www.scribd.com/Helena-Morley-Minha-Vida-de-Menina/d/6630207