page_title: Carolina Maria de Jesus
hierarchical_section_title: Carolina Maria de Jesus
caption_attribution_description: Português: Carolina Maria de Jesus, uma das primeiras e mais importantes escritoras negras do Brasil, oferecendo autógrafos de seu livro "Quarto de Despejo", no qual relata o cotidiano e sentimentos experimentados pela comunidade da favela. Agosto de 1960. Arquivo Nacional. Fundo Correio da Manhã
context_page_description: Carolina Maria de Jesus was a Brazilian outskirts memorialist who lived most of her life as a slum-dweller. She is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as Quarto de Despejo after attracting the attention of a Brazilian journalist, which became a bestseller and won international acclaim. The work remains the only document published in English by a Brazilian slum-dweller of that period. De Jesus spent a significant part of her life in the Canindé Favela in North São Paulo, supporting herself and three children as a scrap collector.
context_section_description: Carolina Maria de Jesus (14 March 1914 – 13 February 1977) was a Brazilian outskirts memorialist who lived most of her life as a slum-dweller. She is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as Quarto de Despejo (lit. Junk Room, English title Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus) after attracting the attention of a Brazilian journalist, which became a bestseller and won international acclaim. The work remains the only document published in English by a Brazilian slum-dweller of that period. De Jesus spent a significant part of her life in the Canindé Favela in North São Paulo, supporting herself and three children as a scrap collector.
caption: Carolina Maria de Jesus at a book signing in 1960
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