Maria Alberta Menéres
Maria Alberta Menéres (25 August 1930 – 15 April 2019) 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. Early life and public career Menéres' birth was on 25 August 1930, in the family home located in the parish of Mafamude, Vila Nova de Gaia, North Portugal. She learnt to read on her own by the age of five and read books from the region of her birth and Brazil. Menéres and her family left Vila Nova de Gaia when she was aged six and relocated to the countryside about from the closest village. She later moved to Lisbon, and ma ...
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Order Of Merit (Portugal)
The Order of Merit ( pt, Ordem do Mérito) is a Portuguese Honorific Order of civil merit intended to award those responsible for meritorious acts or services performed in the exercise of any functions, both in the public and the private sphere, which reveal self-sacrifice in favor of the community. The decorations are given by the President of Portugal, President of the Portuguese Republic, in his role as the Grand-Master of the Portuguese Honorific Orders. The Order of Merit can be awarded, during life or posthumously, to both Portuguese and foreign citizens; it can also be awarded to localities or institutions that are legal persons governed by public law or of public utility. This order has been awarded to a number of people performing the most diverse functions such as ambassadors, businesspeople, military personnel, athletes and musicians. History The Order of Merit has its origin in April 1927, when the Order of Instruction and Benefaction (Original Portuguese: ''Ordem da In ...
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