Maria do Carmo Vieira

MARIA DO CARMO VIEIRA nasceu em Lisboa em 1952. É licenciada em Filologia Românica e mestre em Literatura de Viagens e professora do Ensino Secundário. Coordenou, com Rui Mário Gonçalves, a publicação de Passo e Fico como o Universo, um livro de pintura de influência pessoana. É também autora de Sobre Fernando Pessoa – Drama em Gente e Percurso Pessoano por Lisboa e de A Arte, Mestra da Vida. Coordenou a fixação do texto de Etiópia Oriental e Vária História de Cousas Notáveis do Oriente de Fr. João dos Santos (Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1999). Tem publicado, em jornais diários e semanários, inúmeros artigos sobre o ensino do Português.

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