Leandro Dupré (1905[1] – 15 May 1984[2]), was one of the most popular and prolific Brazilian writers of the 1940s and 1950s.
[1] Born in 1905 in a small town in the state of São Paulo, Dupré published her first story "Uma Família Antiga de Jaboticabal" ("An Old Family from Jaboticabal") in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo in 1978.
[1] Her next novel, Éramos Seis, was written in 1943 and praised by writer and critic Monteiro Lobato and became a best-seller.
[1] Chronicling the struggles of a middle-class family in São Paulo, the novel was awarded the Raul Pompeia Prize for best work of 1943 by the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
[1] She published a sequel to Éramos Seis called Dona Lola in 1949.