Oliva Guerra

Journalist and writer, Oliva Correia de Almada Meneses Guerra graduated in piano from the National Conservatory of Lisbon, 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," as João Gaspar Simões refers to her in História da poesia portuguesa do século vinte: acompanhada de uma antologia (Lisbon, 1959).