Died to writer, biologist and university professor Clara Pinto Correia, aged 65, confirmed a source from the publisher Exclamação ao Expresso. According to the “Morning Mail”was found dead at home, in Estremoz, this Tuesday.
“Clara Pinto Correia added to the joy of living, an intelligence and a brilliance that were expressed in oral and written intervention, in scientific teaching and in communication with others. She never left anyone indifferent. Hence the sense of absence shared by everyone at this moment”, evokes Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Daughter of the Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada and professor of medicine José Manuel Pinto Correia, and sister of journalist Margarida Pinto Correia, Clara graduated in biology from the University of Lisbon in 1984 and taught at the Faculty of Medicine of the same institute in 1985 as a trainee assistant in cell biology and histology and embryology.
In 1989, he left for the United States (USA) to complete his doctorate at the University of New York and, in October 1992, he was awarded the degree of Doctor in Cellular Biology by the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of University of Porto.
After a period in the USA dedicated to cellular and reproductive studies, Clara returns to Portugal, creating a degree in Biology and a master’s degree in Developmental Biology at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.
As a writer, between 1983 and 2007, she wrote more than forty works, including the novel “Adeus, princess”, about agrarian reform in Alentejo and wrote for “O Jornal” (1980-1985) and for “Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias (JL)” between 1983 and 1986.