Clara Pinto Correia, aged 65, died. The body of the writer, university professor and biologist was, according to the Morning Mailfound this Tuesday, December 9th, at his home in Estremoz.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has already left a message of condolence published on official website of the Presidency of the Republic.
“The President of the Republic presents his affectionate feelings to the family, friends and admirers of Clara Pinto Correia, dismayed by your premature departure”reads the released note.
To the head of state, “Clara Pinto Correia added to the joy of living, an intelligence and a brilliance that were expressed in oral and written intervention, in scientific teaching and in communication with others.” “She never left anyone indifferent. Hence the sense of absence shared by everyone at this moment”, he concludes.
The last book by Clara Pinto Correia, Antareswas published in June last year. In his literary career, emphasis on Goodbye, Princess, novel that addresses agrarian reform in Alentejo and which ended up being adapted into a film by director Jorge Paixão da Costa.
His literary debut was with the novel Cress (1984), with several titles in his work, including children’s literature, poetry, popularization and scientific and chronicle research. He was, in fact, a columnist for Diário de Notícias and the magazine Vision.
What if you would be so kind as to tell me why? co-authored with Mário de Carvalho, is part of his work, which also stands out, in fiction, Flower Foot Stitch e More than Perfect and, in children’s literature, Who’s Afraid Buys a DogA My Soul Is Silly e The Island of Crazy Birds.
In addition to literature, she stood out in science, having been a biologist and university professor. In scientific dissemination, there are many books and articles signed by Clara Pinto Correia, such as Clone and Multiply, Test Tube Babies e Eve’s Ovary.
Born on January 30, 1960, in Lisbon, Clara Pinto Correia was also a journalist and television presenter, having played Marta in the film Kiss Me, by António da Cunha Telles.
Daughter of professor and doctor José Manuel Pinto Correia – Posthumous Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada – and Maria Adelaide da Cunha and Vasconcelos de Carvalho Amado, sister of journalist Margarida Pinto Correia, Clara graduated in 1984 in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where, a year later, she began teaching as a trainee assistant in Cellular Biology and Histology and Embryology.
In 1989, he headed to the United States, where he developed a university and research career. Three years later, in 1992, she was awarded a PhD in Cellular Biology by the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Porto.
After a period in the USA, Clara Pinto Correia returned to Portugal and created a degree in Biology and a master’s degree in Developmental Biology at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.