About Tetrá de Teffé
Lived 1897 – 1995 (aged 97–98). Tetrá de Teffé was a Brazilian writer.
Tetrá de Teffé (1897-1995) was a Brazilian writer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Tetrazzini de Almeida Nobre, belonging to an aristocratic family from São Paulo. Her parents were Francisco de Almeida Nobre and Elisa Fernandina Paes de Barros. She married Álvaro de Teffé, son of the Baron of Teffé. She is best known for her novel Bati à Porta da Vida, which won the Machado de Assis Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1941. She became the first female writer to win such an accolade.
A lifelong carioca, she died in Rio de Janeiro in 1995.
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Who was Tetrá de Teffé?
Brazilian writer
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Tetrá de Teffé was born in 1897 in Rio de Janeiro.
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Tetrá de Teffé died in 1995.
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Tetrá de Teffé was a writer.
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Tetrá de Teffé was Brazilian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Tetrá de Teffé. https://biography.guide/tetra-de-teffe/
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