Maria Isabel Barreno de Faria Martins GOIH (10 July 1939 – 3 September 2016)[1] was a Portuguese writer, essayist, journalist and sculptor. She was one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portugesas (New Portuguese Letters), together with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa. The authors, known as the "Three Marias," were arrested, jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship.[2] The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation groups in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution.[3]
Maria Isabel Barreno
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| Born | Maria Isabel Barreno (1939-07-10)10 July 1939 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 3 September 2016(2016-09-03) (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
Born in Lisbon in the freguesiaofSocorro, her parents moved to Areeiro, where she spent her childhood and adolescence. She studied College of Letters at the Universidade de Lisboa, where she graduated in Historico-Philosophical Sciences.
After graduation she took a job working for the Instituto de Investigação Industrial. She dedicated herself to the cause of feminism, taking part in the Portuguese feminist movement together with the writers Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, the "Three Marias" (Três Marias).
On 8 March 2004 she was made a Grand Official in the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique.[4]
Barreno died on 3 September 2016 at the age of 77.[5] The sketch shown here is not a portrait of Barreno but of Maria Fatima Velho da Costa. A 1975 photo of the Three Marias published in The Economist shows Isabel Barreno on the right. A late-life photo of her appears with her obituary on a Portuguese government site, cig.gov.pt.
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