Elsie Lessa
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Biography
Lessa was hired as a reporter for the newspaper O Globo in 1946. From 1952 till her death in May 2000, she wrote continuously for the paper. No other writer had a permanent role with the paper for so long.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
She was consideredTemplate:By whom one of the two most beautiful women of her day in Rio de Janeiro, along with Adalgisa Nery). The writer Rubem Braga tells of how he followed her for a long time through the streets of downtown São Paulo, just to enjoy her beauty and grace.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The writer Ruy Castro, in his book Ela é Carioca said of her: "Elsie has to be placed beside the greatest masters of a genre in the language, like Rubem Braga, Paulo Mendes Campos and Fernando Sabino".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
She was a granddaughter of the writer and grammarian Júlio Ribeiro, patron of the 24th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the creator of the flag of the State of São Paulo.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
She was married to the writer Orígenes Lessa, with whom she had a son, the writer and journalist Ivan Lessa. Lessa later married journalist and writer Ivan Pedro de Martins. She is the grandmother of the writer Juliana Foster, and aunt and godmother of the writer and translator Sergio Pinheiro Lopes.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Selected bibliography
Books:[2]
- Pelos caminhos do mundo (1950). Rio de Janeiro: A Noite.
- A dama da noite: crońicas (1963). Rio de Janeiro: Livraria J. Olympio.
- Crônicas de amor e desamor (1973). Rio de Janeiro: F. Alves.
- Ponte Rio-Londres (1984). Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record.
- Formoso tejo meu: (Crónicas) (1998). Lisbon: Editora Pergaminho. Template:ISBN
- Canta que avida é un dia. Crônicas reunidas. (1998). Rio de Janeiro: Razao Cultural. Template:ISBN