Éramos Seis (novel)

Éramos Seis
"We Were Six"
Classic cover of the paperback edition
AuthorMaria José Dupré
LanguagePortuguese
GenreNovel
Published1943
Publication placeBrazil
Media typePrint
Followed byDona Lola 

Éramos Seis ("We Were Six") is a 1943 Brazilian novel by Maria José Dupré about a struggling middle-class family in São Paulo. Praised by writer and critic Monteiro Lobato, it became a best-selling novel and was awarded the Raul Pompeia Prize for best work of 1943 by the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Dupré published a sequel called Dona Lola in 1949.

Éramos Seis has been adapted as a telenovela six times, in 1958, 1960, 1967, 1977, 1994 and 2019.