Maria Alberta Menéres

Maria Alberta Menéres was a Portuguese author, children's writer, journalist and poet. She authored more than 100 books for children and young people when she began her professional writing career in 1952. Menéres also worked as a teacher, newspaper and magazine journalist as well as for Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. She received the International Poetry Contest Giacomo Leopardi in 1960, the Gulbenkian Grand Prize for Literature for Children and Youth in 1986 and was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit in 2010.