ILSE LOSA by Olga Martins https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/ilse_losa A Famous Writer - A Refugee in PORTUGAL. en-us 2018-01-17 12:17:51 UTC 2025-09-26 09:51:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/131333617/2403919094ee7a16af34782c56148e6e/Erasmus_FarAwayCloseAnyway.jpg ILSE LOSA, a Famous Refugee in PORTUGAL. olgacarvalhomartins https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/ilse_losa/wish/222033305 Ilse Losa was a Portuguese writer and translator, author of children’s literature, who was born in a village near Hanover, Germany, on 20 March 1913, and died on 6 January 2006 in Porto.

When she was about 16 years old the family had financial difficulties: after the death of her father, the money was not enough for the family expenses. The young woman then left to London to learn a perfect English. There she took care of children and attended a school.

After her return to Germany, Adolf Hitler's supporters began to dominate the country. She tried to study and work in Berlin, but as a Jew she had to flee the country to avoid being taken to a concentration camp. In 1934, in the middle of World War II, she took refuge in Portugal and settled down in Porto, acquiring the Portuguese nationality.

In 1943, the year in which her first daughter, Margarida Lieblich Losa was born, she published her first book “O Mundo em que Vivi” ("The World I Lived in") that portrays the wartime environment, in her childhood, in Germany, and since then she dedicated her life to children's literature and translation of infant-juvenile books, having been awarded in 1984 with the Gulbenkian Grand Prix for her whole work dedicated to children.

Her narrative and poetic work, essentially published in the 1950s, focuses on autobiographical retrospective, evoking childhood and adolescence, as an experience overshadowed by the breakdown of innocence and unity brought about by the experience of Nazi horror and the loss of homeland.                                                             Maria Carolina Cruz
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