ISAURA FERNANDES
ENGLISH
BIOGRAPHY
 
BIOGRAPHY

Isaura Fernandes da Silveira - ISAURA FERNANDES - is a writer, journalist, poet and an artist. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on September 4, 1918. Between 8 and 12 years old, she assembled the most famous poems and read them at school presentations. She dreamed of becoming a writer and a poet. At the age of 12, after graduating at primary school with the highest mark, she started to work as an assisting teacher. As she wasn´t abre to continue to study, she abandoned her dreams. She excelled as a fashion stylist with a French teacher, achieving a position at Vogue Fashion House, the most important in the country. As she was under age, she was not allowed to travel abroad to look for models. So, she passed her position to someone else who was older. She dedicated herself to her private clients: brides and first maids in high society. She married at 20 years old, and had two sons and a daughter. They graduated, got married and have given her grandsons. When she became a grandmother at 59, she remembered when she was a girl, and decided to follow her old dream. She went back to school, and after a year, she entered college. She majored in Portuguese Language and Literature, having Full Mastership by the Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo and a Post Graduation course in Communication and Semiotics. She was a monitor at the Course of Child and Infant Literature at PUC. She took part of several congresses: Brazilian Congress in Semiotics, I Writing and Reading Congress, Nestle Biennial of Brazilian Literature,  Brazilian Congress on the Portuguese Language, GEL - Group of Linguistic Studies of the State of São Paulo. To improve her resume, she attended a course at the school of arts in "OPA - Art Workshop of São Paulo". This course inspired the work "The Great Century - Picasso - Arts - Brazilian Literature and Inventions", soon to be released, a research made in Spain, at the Library of the Museo Del Prado, in Madrid. Picasso's life and works, the biggest revolutionary of all arts in the XX Century. As a VIP student in her school, she received a Fraternity Certificate.