Manuela Nogueira
Portuguese author and poet (born 1925)
Manuela Nogueira (born 16 November 1925) is a Portuguese poet, and fiction and non-fiction writer of books for adults and children. Best known as the niece of the poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), with whom she lived for much of the first ten years of her life, she has published several books about Pessoa and is frequently interviewed by the media about her uncle.
Early life
Maria Manuela Nogueira Rosa Dias Murteira was born on 16 November 1925 in Lisbon on Rua Coelho da Rocha, in the parish of Campo de Ourique, in what is today known as the Casa Fernando Pessoa (Fernando Pessoa House). When she was about five her family moved to Estoril where they kept a room vacant for Pessoa should he wish to stay. They also lived for a time in Évora, where her father was posted as a member of the military.
Her grandfather, Pessoa's step-father, had been the Portuguese consul in Durban, South Africa. Her mother was born there and had attended English schools. She would often speak to Nogueira in English. Nogueira then benefitted from an education in both English and French, attending St. Julian's School a British international private school in Carcavelos to the west of Lisbon and, additionally, studying French at the Lycée féminin in Lisbon.
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