Irene Lisboa

Irene do Céu Vieira Lisboa (25 December 1892 – 25 November 1958) was a Portuguese novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist and educational writer. Especially for her fictional work, she has achieved a special place in modern Portuguese literature.

Isabel Lisboa was born in Quinta da Murzinheira in the municipality of Arruda dos Vinhos. After schooling in Lisbon, she studied pedagogy in Belgium, France and Switzerland. She then worked as a teacher and a school inspector before becoming an official of the Instituto para a Alta Cultura (Institute of High Culture).

Lisboa used several pen names: Manuel Soares for her educational works and João Falcó for her early literary works and much of her poetry as women writers were not generally accepted at the time. From 1926 to 1958, in addition to several academic works on pedagogy, she published poems, short stories, novels, books for children, and literary essays. She also contributed to a number of Portuguese periodicals. Her literature was well received in both Portugal and Brazil. The poet and literary critic Jorge de Sena considered she was one of the "greatest Portuguese writers on account of the incomparable originality of her style and personality".

• 1943: Apontamentos, writings resembling a diary
• 1940: Começa uma vida, autobiographical story
• 1942: Esta cidade!, reportage
• 1958: Título qualquer serve reportage
• 1965: Solidão, writings resembling a diary