Diná Silveira de Queirós

Dinah Silveira Ribeiro (also known as Diná Silveira de Queirós; November 9, 1911 – November 27, 1982), was a Brazilian writer of novels, short stories, and chronicles. She received the Machado de Assis Prize.

Biography Silveira de Queirós was born on November 9, 1911, in São Paulo. She published her main works between 1939 and 1955. Silveira de Queirós was a Machado de Assis Prize laureate and the "second woman to be elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters". She died November 27, 1982, in Rio de Janeiro. Her novel A Muralha was the basis for the 1968 telenovela A Muralha and for the 2000 television series A Muralha.

In 1961, she was widowed by her first husband. In 1962, she was appointed cultural attaché at the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid, and soon after married again to diplomat Dário Moreira de Castro Alves, with whom she moved to Moscow, in the then Soviet Union. During this period, she wrote chronicles that were later included in the 1969 volume Café da Manhã. In 1964 she returned to Brazil, to return to Europe again two years later, settling in Italy. Dinah died on November 27, 1982, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Selected works 1939 - Floradas na Serra, novel 1941 - A Sereia Verde, short stories 1949 - Margarida La Rocque, novel 1951 - As Aventuras do Homem Vegetal, children's fiction 1954 - A Muralha, novel 1956 - O Oitavo Dia, play 1957 - As Noite do Morro do Encanto, short stories 1960 - Era Uma Vez Uma Princesa, biography 1960 - Eles Herdarão a Terra, short stories 1965 - Os Invasores, novel 1966 - A Princesa dos Escravos, biography 1968 - Verão dos Infiéis, novel 1969 - Comba Malina, short stories 1969 - Café da Manhã, chronicle 1974 - Eu Venho, Memorial do Cristo I 1977 - Eu, Jesus, Memorial do Cristo II 1979 - Baía de Espuma, children's fiction 1981 - Guida, Caríssima Guida, novel

Co-authored works 1960 - Antologia Brasileira de Ficção-científica, short stories 1961 - Histórias do Acontecerá, short stories 1962 - O Mistério dos MMM, novel 1962 - Quadrante 1, chronicle 1963 - Quadrante 2, chronicle