Éramos Seis (novel)
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| Author | Maria José Dupré |
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| Language | Portuguese |
| Genre | Novel |
| Published | 1943 |
| Publication place | Brazil |
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| Followed by | Dona 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.