Laurinda Fernandes de Carvalho Araújo

Poet, ethnographic researcher and author of children's literature. A primary school teacher, she was a member of the Lisbon Geographical Society, the Portuguese Association of Writers, the Association of Journalists and Men of Letters of Porto; co-founder of the Center for Regional Studies and member of the Center for Social and Ethnographic Studies of Viana do Castelo, honorary member of the Portuguese Literary Lyceum and the Royal Portuguese Reading Cabinet of Rio de Janeiro, and founding member of the University of the Third Age.