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Carolina Maria de Jesus

Carolina Maria de Jesus (14 March 1914[1] – 13 February 1977) was a Brazilian outskirts memorialist who lived most of her life as a slum-dweller. She is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as Quarto de Despejo (lit. Junk Room, English title Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus) after attracting the attention of a Brazilian journalist, which became a bestseller and won international acclaim. The work remains the only document published in English by a Brazilian slum-dweller of that period. De Jesus spent a significant part of her life in the Canindé [pt] favela in North São Paulo, supporting herself and three children as a scrap collector.

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Born 1914
Died 1977

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  • Cover of: Child of the dark: the diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus.

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  • Cover of: Bitita's Diary : the Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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  • Cover of: Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria De Jesus (Latin American Realities)

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  • Cover of: The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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  • Cover of: I'm going to have a little house: the second diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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Born 1914
Died 1977

Subjects

Social conditions, Poor, Social life and customs, Blacks, Biography, Black people, Diaries, Poor, brazil, Brazil, social life and customs, Childhood and youth, City and town life, Race relations, Rural conditions, Blacks, brazil, Brazil, biography, Sao paulo (brazil), Black Women, Blacks, social conditions, Brazil, race relations, History, Aphorisms and apothegms, Armut, Autobiography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Brazil

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Brazil, São Paulo (Brazil), São Paulo, Brésil, Social life and customs, São Paulo (Brazil : State)

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Carolina Maria de Jesus

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1889-, 20th century

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July 10, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
February 29, 2024 Edited by Сергей Малышев Edited without comment.
February 29, 2024 Edited by Сергей Малышев Added new photo
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import