Maria Velho da Costa
Maria de Fátima de Bivar Velho da Costa was a Portuguese writer who was awarded the Camões Prize in 2002. She took part in the Portuguese Feminist Movement with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Teresa Horta.
She was the only daughter of Afonso Jaime de Bivar Moreira de Brito Velho da Costa by second wife Julieta Vaz Monteiro da Assunção.
She married Adérito de Oliveira Sedas Nunes, the "founding father" of Portuguese Sociology and a government minister, son of Élio Sedas Nunes and wife Maria de Oliveira, at the Church of São Tiago, in São Tiago, Lisbon, in 1962, and they had one son, João Afonso de Bivar Sedas Nunes, like his father a sociologist and a University Professor.
