拉谢尔·德·凯罗斯

拉谢尔·德·凯罗斯（Rachel de Queiroz，1910年11月17日—2003年11月4日）是巴西作家、翻译家和新闻工作者。

拉谢尔·德·凯罗斯于1930年代加入巴西共产党.1937年，她被警察逮捕；1930年代末，她与巴西共产党.断绝关系。 1964年，她支持军官发动军事政变。

1964年，她成为巴西驻联合国代表，1977年，她成为第一位进入巴西文学学院的女作家。她还于1993年获颁卡蒙斯文学奖。

2003年11月4日，她在里约热内卢莱布隆的公寓中因心肌梗死而去世。

Rachel de Queiroz (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁaˈkɛw dʒi ˈkejɾɔs], November 17, 1910 – November 4, 2003) was a Brazilian author, translator and journalist.

Biography

Rachel de Queiroz was born on November 17, 1910 in Fortaleza, capital of the northeastern state of Ceará. During her childhood, her family spent a couple of years in Rio de Janeiro and Belém before moving back to Fortaleza.

She began her career in journalism in 1927 under the pen name "Rita de Queiroz". She entered the national spotlight with the unexpected success of her debut novel O Quinze in 1930. She published another three novels before moving to Rio in 1939. She was also renowned for her chronicles, short topical newspaper pieces.

De Queiroz joined the Brazilian Communist Party in the 1930s; she was arrested by the Getulio Vargas police in 1937; she would break off with the party later that decade. In 1964 she supported the Brazilian military coup d'état.

In 1964 she became Brazil's representative to the UN, and in 1977 she became the first female writer to enter the Academia Brasileira de Letras. She won the Camões Prize (1993) and the Prêmio Jabuti.

She died of a heart attack in her apartment in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro on November 4, 2003, about two weeks before her 93rd birthday.

The Brazilian Marines' base in the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is named after her.

Brazilian Academy of Letters

Her election, on November 4, 1977, to seat 5 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, caused some excitement among the feminists of the time. In an interview, she declared: I did not join the ABL because I was a woman. I joined because, regardless of that, I have a work. I have dear friends here. Almost all my friends are men, I don't trust women very much.

Received by Adonias Filho, she was the fifth occupant of the chair whose patron is Bernardo Guimarães.

Legacy

Her novel O Quinze was made into a film in 2004.

On November 17, 2017, Google celebrated her 107th birthday with a Google Doodle.