Clara Pinto Correia
Illustration — Clara Pinto-Correia Clara Pinto-Correia (30 January 1960 – 9 December 2025) was a Portuguese novelist, journalist and educator.
Also recorded as Maria Clara Amado Pinto Correia · Clara Pinto-Correia
Clara Pinto Correia
- Born
- 1960 · Lisbon.
- Died
- 2025 · Estremoz.
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Occupation
- translator · journalist · biologist · writer · actress · historian · university teacher · veterinarian
- Fields
- biology · literary activity · belletristic literature · journalism
- Education
- University of Porto
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Life and career
The daughter of a physician, she was born in Lisbon and earned a doctorate in cellular biology from the University of Porto. She was an adjunct professor in Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She wrote a weekly column for the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias. In 1984, she published her first novel Watercress (Agrião), followed by Goodbye Princess (Adeus, Princesa) in 1985. Adeus, Princesa was made into a movie in 1992. Pinto-Correia died on 9 December 2025, at the age of 65.
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Clara Pinto Correia appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a biologist and “Tierärztin” (30 January 1960 – December 2025). The birth of Clara Pinto Correia is recorded on 30 January 1960 in Lisbon, Portugal, and the death in December 2025 in Estremoz (Évora, Portugal).
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- 1.Clara Pinto Correia morreu aos 65 anos. Corpo foi encontrado em casa, em Estremoz.
- 2.Clara Pinto Correia.
- 3.30 anos depois da partida de José Pinto Correia.
- 4.Maria Adelaide de Carvalho Amado da Cunha e Vasconcelos.
- 5.Clara Pinto Correia (1960-2025), adeus, princesa.
- 6.O abismo.
- 7.Revista Up. As irmãs Margarida e Clara Pinto Correia. 1 de Agosto de 2008.
- 8.Clara Pinto Correia.
- 9.Andreia Costa. Clara Pinto Correia, a escritora "garrida" e de "intensidade extrema" que acumulou sucessos e polémicas na mesma medida. Observador. 2025-12-09.
- 10.https://usia.co.uk/overtherainbow/raphaelkessler
- 11.Já se sabe quem encontrou a escritora inanimada: “Episódio de doença…”. sapo.pt.
- 12.TV 7 Dias. 12-12-2025.
- 13.www.quasi.com.pt.
- 14.www.quasi.com.pt.
- 15.www.quasi.com.pt.
- 16.Podcasts. 21-10-2008.
- 17.Anda uma màe a criar filhas para isto !.
- 18.Terra Delas. Book Gang.
- 19.PÚBLICO. 2003-02-06.
- 20.Página Um. 8-9-2022.
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