Maria Cristina Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
Maria Cristina Cavalcanti de Albuquerque (Vertentes, February 1943) is a Brazilian novelist, historian and psychiatrist.
Biography
Daughter of the doctor and politician Emidio Cavalcanti de Albuquerque and Maria do Carmo Santana Cavalcanti. From a young age had awakened his interest in literature and historiography to hear the stories that their grandparents and uncles told him about the genealogy of the Albuquerque Family. It is descended from Portuguese nobleman Jerônimo de Albuquerque.
He graduated in Medicine at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and attended graduate in Psychiatry at Michigan State University in the United States. Was a university professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry of UFPE and president of the Archaeological Institute, History and Geography Pernambucano.
Literature
Assigns the passion for reading classic works of the universal literature of his maturity as a writer over the years. His favorite writers are, in tragedy, the greek Euripides; Shakespeare in tragicomedy; the great Russian novelists Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. In the tale, tends to Chekhov. See in Marcel Proust the revolution of the concept of romance. In poetry she is a great admirer of Rimbaud. In Brazilian literature she appreciates the dapper style of Machado de Assis and the creations of João Cabral de Mello Neto and Gerardo Mello Mourao. Her favorite classic is "In Search of Lost Time" by Proust. As a bedside book she has the Jerusalem Bible. Believes that the her best book is "Luz do Abismo", published in 1996.
In 2012, held the lecture "Matias, o magro" in the auditorium of the Museum of Pernambuco State, under the auspices of the Association of Friends of Museum, trying on the life and achievements of Count of Alegrete Matias de Albuquerque, a Portuguese nobleman who was governor Captaincy of Pernambuco and one of the Governors-General of Brazil.
In 2014 follows with the final preparations for the publication of his new book "Múltiplas Verdades", which deals with the interaction of the reader-writer, the "womb" of literary creation, according to the author. Started the documentary searches for structuring other book of historical fiction, "O Seminário" on the traditional and prestigious Seminary of Olinda, founded in 1801, and its leading role in Pernambuco revolutionary cycle.
Works
- O Magnificat: memórias diacrônicas de dona Isabel Cavalcanti (1990)
- Luz do Abismo (1996)
- Príncipe e Corsário (2005)
- Memórias de Isabel Cavalcanti (2006)
- Olhos Negros (2010)
- Matias: romance (2012)