Lúcia Machado de Almeida (1910 – April 30, 2005) was a Brazilian writer. She was born in the Nova Granja farm, in

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city, state of

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. She moved to

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when she was a child. After that, she studied until

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at the Santa Maria school, in the same city. She learnt

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s and

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. She had three siblings:

Aníbal Machado Aníbal Machado (born 9 December 1894, Sabará–died , Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian writer born in Sabará, Minas Gerais. He had been the president of the Brazilian Association of Writers and received numerous awards for his novels. He was als ...

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and Carolina Machado, all of whom are writers. Her husband is the brother of another writer, the poet Guilherme de Almeida. Her first published writing was a

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, "Desencanto", which appeared in the ''Estado de Minas'' newspaper when she was fourteen years old. Some year later, she published her first book called ''Estórias do Fundo do Mar''. She won a number of literary prizes such as the Othon Bezerra de Mello Prize and the Stella della Solidarietá Medal.

Death

Lucia died on April 30, 2005, at the age of 95, in

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, São Paulo state, from

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, while spending a few days with one of her daughters. She left two daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was buried in Gethsêmani Cemetery in

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Bibliography

* ''Estórias do Fundo do Mar'' (Stories from Under the Sea) * ''Lendas da Terra do Ouro'' (Myths of the Land of Gold) * ''O Caso da Borboleta Atíria'',

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(The Case of the Atiria Butterfly) * '' O Escaravelho do Diabo'', novel (The Devil's Scarab) * ''Passeio a Sabará'' (Going for a Walk in Sabará) * ''Passeio a Diamantina'' (Going for a walk in Diamantina) * ''Xisto no Espaço'', novel (Xisto in Space) * ''Xisto e o Saca-Rolha'', novel (Xisto and the Corkscrew) * ''Aventuras de Xisto'', novel (Xisto's Adventures) * ''Passeio a Ouro Preto'', novel (Going for a Walk in Ouro Preto) * ''Passeio ao Alto Minho'', novel(Going for a Walk in Alto Minho) * ''Spharion'', novel (Spharion)

References

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