If you have seen [this building](https://www.cnc.pt/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/memorial-evocativo-centenario-sophia.jpg) while being in Lisbon you have seen a memorial to our greatest female writer: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.
Born in a wealthy family of Danish and Belgian ancestry, she became Portugal’s greatest woman, saying things like *Why the others shut up but you don’t*
However I don’t think her books were that good, even being children’s books, she has a book about a girl falling in love with a fish that had an impact on my childhood because it was really gross (*A fada Oriana*) a book about a Danish Knight who is lost on a forest (*O cavaleiro da Dinamarca*) and a boy who falls in love with an imaginary girl (*A menina do Mar*)
Her books are the same: simple but weird stories that have no deeper meaning, just some pages with text and nothing more.
Sophia’s books are bad but they are the first books every portuguese person reads and that is why everyone here knows about them. But I dont know why she deserves a monument.
by CRNXD38
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