by Maria Alberta Menéres · Porto Editora · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720726575
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«Ulisses» is the children's and young adult novel by Maria Alberta Menéres, published by Porto Editora in paperback (80 pages, in Portuguese).
Adaptation of Homer's Odyssey for young readers: it recounts the adventures of Ulisses, king of Ithaca, on his long journey home. The work follows his encounters with cyclopes, sirens and the sorceress Circe, and his determination to return to his faithful Penelope, portraying a cunning and brave hero.
The work belongs to the Educação Literária collection and is recommended for the 6th year of schooling in Portugal's Plano Nacional de Leitura. It was originally published in 1989.
Aimed at young readers and primary school students approaching classical myths for the first time.
Maria Alberta Menéres was a Portuguese author, children's writer, journalist and poet. She authored more than 100 books for children and young people when she began her professional writing career in 1952. Menéres also worked as a teacher, newspaper and magazine journalist as well as for Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. She received the International Poetry Contest Giacomo Leopardi in 1960, the Gulbenkian Grand Prize for Literature for Children and Youth in 1986 and was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit in 2010.
