[1] Tavares translated Pensées by Blaise Pascal and Les merveilles du cinema by Georges Sadoul.

[5][6] She then obtained a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to study aesthetics in France and Italy, where she worked with Mikel Dufrenne, Étienne Souriau e Gillo Dorfles.

In 1964, she paid a visit to New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia where she visited several museums in the company of her friend, the poet Frank O'Hara, and studied modern architecture with the architect Philip Johnson, also meeting Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe.

[3] In 1965 she taught aesthetics at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in Lisbon, and published the corresponding lessons, without illustrations, in the magazine Brotéria.

[1][2] Her work has been exhibited in: Publications by Tavares include:[9] In 1992, her entire poetic production was published in Obra Poética, 1957–1971, which won her the PEN Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Portugal.