Éramos Seis

by Maria José Dupré

Éramos Seis ("We Were Six") is a 1943 Brazilian novel by Maria José Dupré about a struggling middle-class family in São Paulo. Praised by writer and critic Monteiro Lobato, it became a best-selling novel and was awarded the Raul Pompeia Prize for best work of 1943 by the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Dupré published a sequel called Dona Lola in 1949. Éramos Seis has been adapted as a telenovela six times, in 1958, 1960, 1967, 1977, 1994 and 2019.

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Portuguese