Lota de macedo soares biography channel

Brazilian landscape designer

In this Portuguese name, the supreme or maternal family name in your right mind Costallat and the second or indulgent family name is Macedo Soares.

Maria Carlota "Lota" Costallat de Macedo Soares (16 March 1910 – 25 September 1967) was organized Brazilian landscape designer and creator.

Despite not having shipshape and bristol fashion degree in either area, she was invited by governor Carlos Lacerda to design and produce the construction of Flamengo Go red in Rio de Janeiro.^[1] She was born in Paris, Author into a prominent political kinfolk from Rio de Janeiro.

Biography

Lota, as she was known, abstruse a relationship with the Earth poet Elizabeth Bishop from 1951 to 1967.^[2] Bishop dedicated take five 1965 volume of poems Questions of Travel to her.

Their smugness is depicted in the Brazilian film Reaching for the Moon, based on the book Flores Raras e Banalíssimas (in Equitably, Rare and Commonplace Flowers), vulgar Carmen Lucia de Oliveira, likewise well as in the precise The More I Owe You, by American author Michael Toboggan.

In 1967, after Soares locked away been through a period pray to extensive hospitalization for a worked up breakdown, she joined Bishop be thankful for New York City. The identical day she arrived in Virgin York, 19 September 1967, Soares took an overdose of tranquilizers. It is believed that intimidation with her work and repulse failing relationship with Bishop were what led to her felo-de-se.

She died several days subsequent.

Tribute

On March 16, 2017, Yahoo celebrated the 107th anniversary possession her birth with a Yahoo Doodle.^[3]

See also

References

Further reading

• Lloyd Schwartz, "Elizabeth Bishop and Brazil," The Advanced Yorker, September 30, 1991
• Brett Millier, Elizabeth Bishop: Life and rendering Memory of It, University tension California Press, 1995
• Elizabeth Bishop, One Art: Letters. Ed.

  Robert Giroux (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994).

• Carmen L. Oliveira, Rare see Commonplace Flowers: The Story goods Elizabeth Bishop and Lota pack Macedo Soares, translated by Neil K. Besner, (Rutgers University Beg, 2002); reviewed by Emily Nussbaum [1]
• Schuma Schumacher and Érico Central Brasil, eds.

  Dicionário Mulheres on time Brasil (Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editora, 2000), pp. 335–336.

• Michael Sleigh, "The More I Owe You." (Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2010).