“Memories of a forger”, the more or less autobiographical book by Margarida Tengarrinha, will be released on the 1st of March, at 18 pm, in the conference room of the National Archives/Torre do Tombo, in Lisbon.
The book, which is subtitled “The struggle underground for Freedom in Portugal”, will be presented by Silvestre Lacerda, director of the National Archives.
Margarida Tengarrinha, who is about to turn 90, recalls in this work, published by Colibri, the years when, in hiding, she used her ability as an artist and student of Fine Arts in the service of forging documents to guarantee the work of the resistant to Salazar's dictatorship.
Margarida Tengarrinha, born in Portimão in 1928, studied Fine Arts in Lisbon, where she met what would be her companion and father of her two daughters, the painter José Dias Coelho, a prominent member of the Portuguese Communist Party. It was with him that she ended up exchanging the comfortable life of a daughter of the bourgeoisie for the difficult life of the underground. After the 25th of April 1974, Margarida Tengarrinha was deputy of the PCP elected by the Algarve.
In 2014, for her career in the cultural area and in the defense of women's rights, Margarida Tengarrinha was the first to be awarded the Maria Veleda Prize.
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