title: Lurdes Breda
text: # Lurdes Breda
  
  Lurdes Breda (born May 5, 1970) is a Portuguese poet and children's writer.
  
  She was born in the municipality of Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal. Breda attended the Modern Languages and Literatures course – Portuguese Studies variant, at the Open University. She was awarded in several national and international literary contests. Breda is the author of twenty-eight works and co-author of eleven others, published in Portugal, Brazil and Mozambique. She is known, above all, as a writer of books for children and young people.
  
  ## Awards and honours
  
  In 2005, Lurdes was distinguished with the "Women of Value" Award and in 2014, she received the Municipal Cultural Merit Medal.
  
  