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Maria Teresa Horta

1937 - 2025

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Maria Teresa de Mascarenhas Horta Barros (20 May 1937 – 4 February 2025) was a Portuguese feminist poet, journalist and activist. She is one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), together with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa. The authors, known as the "Three Marias," were arrested, jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation groups in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Teresa Horta is the 2,640th most popular writer (up from 6,181st in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 424th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Portuguese Writer.

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Among writers, Maria Teresa Horta ranks 2,640 out of 7,302. Before her are Udo Lindenberg, Cornelius Ryan, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Han Suyin, Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, and Ramón Sampedro. After her are Rahman Baba, Andy Weir, Frigyes Karinthy, Petar Preradović, John of Ephesus, and Antimachus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Maria Teresa Horta ranks 183. Before her are Paolo Bonacelli, Jay Rockefeller, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Monica Zetterlund, Seymour Hersh, and Don Bluth. After her are Valentin Bondarenko, Giovanni Arrighi, Maryan Wisniewski, Gustavo Noboa, Anna Hazare, and Dick Dale. Among people deceased in 2025, Maria Teresa Horta ranks 127. Before her are Mike Ratledge, Harris Yulin, Muhammad az-Zanati, Marcel Ophüls, Manga, and Clive Revill. After her are Giuseppe Moioli, Rinus Israël, George Wendt, Lima, Peter Bichsel, and Kailash Purryag.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Maria Teresa Horta ranks 224 out of 633. Before her are Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders (1157), Mísia (1955), Manuel Clemente (1948), Mariana Alcoforado (1640), Pauleta (1973), and Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza (1806). After her are Alexandrina of Balazar (1904), Francisco Serrão (1500), Carlos do Carmo (1939), Leonor Teles (1350), Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark (1211), and Nuno Gomes (1976).

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Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Maria Teresa Horta ranks 16. Before her are Almeida Garrett (1799), Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), Tomé Pires (1468), António Vieira (1608), Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), and Mariana Alcoforado (1640). After her are Alexandre Herculano (1810), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919), Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890), António Ferreira (1528), Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança (1907), and Christopher Hampton (1946).

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