Tetrá de Teffé

Tetrá de Teffé (1897-1995) was a Brazilian writer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Tetrazzini de Almeida Nobre, belonging to an aristocratic family from São Paulo. Her parents were Francisco de Almeida Nobre and Elisa Fernandina Paes de Barros. She married Álvaro de Teffé, son of the Baron of Teffé.[1][2] She is best known for her novel Bati à Porta da Vida, which won the Machado de Assis Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1941. She became the first female writer to win such an accolade.[3][4]

A lifelong carioca, she died in Rio de Janeiro in 1995.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ Admiral Antônio Luiz von Hoonholtz, Baron of Teffé - patron of ATBT (in Portuguese the acronym of the Association of the Baron of Teffé Class)
  2. ^ "TETRA DE TEFFE. Cartão assinado por Tetra de Teffé - escritora e intelectual brasileira". LeilõesBR. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  3. ^ Grecco, Gabriela de Lima (2020-04-14). Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945: Burning Books, Awarding Writers. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-78284-673-4.
  4. ^ Carlos, Secchin Antonio (2023-07-18). Papeis de poesia: Machado & Mais. Editora Unesp. ISBN 978-65-5714-384-1.
  5. ^ "Levemos a mulher à Academia Brasileira de Letras! Tetrá de Teffé, a primeira romancista premiada pelos imortais". Portal de Periódicos da CAPES (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  6. ^ Grecco, Gabriela de Lima (2018-05-04). "Levemos a mulher à Academia Brasileira de Letras! Tetrá de Teffé, a primeira romancista premiada pelos imortais". Travessias (in Portuguese). 12 (1): e19326. ISSN 1982-5935.
  7. ^ "TETRA DE TEFFE. Cartão assinado por Tetra de Teffé - escritora e intelectual brasileira". LeilõesBR. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
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