Oliva Guerra

Journalist and writer, Oliva Correia de Almada Meneses Guerra graduated in piano from the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa, where she was a student of Costa Reis, Alexandre Rey Colaço, and Viana da Mota. She was also a teacher of Portuguese and Literature. She translated Santo António, by Gino Saviotti (Lisbon, 1944); O Apóstolo, by Gerhardt Hauptmann (Coimbra, 1945); O homem é forte, by Corrado Alvaro (Porto, 1945); and Florença: cidade de pintores, by Piero Bargellini (Lisbon, 1954). She directed the magazine A Semana Musical (in the 1920s) and organized and prefaced the volume In Memoriam de Viana da Mota (Lisbon, 1952). «In prose and verse, she is romantic and sentimental», thus João Gaspar Simões refers to her, in História da poesia portuguesa do século vinte: acompanhada de uma antologia (Lisbon, 1959).