Maria Madalena Valdez Trigueiros de Martel Patrício (19 April 1884 – 3 November 1947) was a Portuguese novelist and poet.

She became the first Portuguese woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, despite being now a largely forgotten writer in her home country.

[1][2] Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício was born in Lisbon on 19 April 1884, into an aristocratic family with roots in Pombal.

Maria Magdalena became the first Portuguese woman to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature for the first time in 1934 by Bento Carqueja, a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

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