Isabel da Nóbrega

Maria Isabel Guerra Bastos Gonçalves, who used the pseudonym Isabel da Nóbrega (26 June 1925 – 2 September 2021), was a Portuguese writer, playwright, columnist, translator and radio broadcaster. On 9 June 2000, she was made a Grand-Officer of the Order of Merit. On 25 April 2011, she was made a Grand-Officer of the Order of Liberty.

Biography Maria Isabel Guerra Bastos Gonçalves was born in Lisbon, on 26 June 1925. Her father was a doctor, and she was raised in a Protestant family. She died in Estoril on 2 September 2021.

Career She adopted the pseudonym of Isabel da Nóbrega, and published several works, including plays, screenplays for film and television, novels, and other works under this name. In 1974, she was one of the organizers of the 1st Portuguese Writers' Congress.

Her first major published work was a novel, Os Anjos e os Homens (The Angels and Men) She was a close friend of writers Natália Correia and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

Awards Isabel da Nóbrega won several awards during her career, including: 2008 – Career Consecration Award from the Society of Portuguese Authors