Diná Silveira de Queirós


Dinah Silveira Ribeiro, better known as Diná Silveira de Queirós, was a Brazilian writer of novels, short stories, and chronicles. She published her main works between 1939 and 1955. Silveira de Queirós was a Machado de Assis Prize laureate and the "second woman to be elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters". Her novel, A Muralha was the basis for the Brazilian telenovela, A Muralha.

Selected works