Clara Pinto-Correia

Clara Pinto-Correia was a Portuguese novelist, journalist and educator.

Life and career

The daughter of a physician, she was born in Lisbon and earned a doctorate in cellular biology from the University of Porto. She was an adjunct professor in Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She wrote a weekly column for the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias.
In 1984, she published her first novel Watercress, followed by Goodbye Princess in 1985. Adeus, Princesa was made into a movie in 1992.
Pinto-Correia died on 9 December 2025, at the age of 65.