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Adélia Prado is a Brazilian poet and prose writer born in 1935 in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais. She is one of the most beloved and celebrated poets in Brazilian literature, known for poetry that combines the deeply personal — the experiences of a Catholic woman, wife, and mother in provincial Brazil — with a profound theological and mystical dimension. She began publishing in her forties and was immediately recognized as a major poet. Read more →