Snu Abecassis | |
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Born | Ebba Merete Seidenfaden 7 October 1940 Copenhagen, Denmark |
Died | 4 December 1980 Camarate, Lisbon District, Portugal | (aged 40)
Citizenship |
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Occupation | Publisher |
Employer | Publicações Dom Quixote |
Spouse |
Alberto Vasco Abecassis
(m. 1961, divorced) |
Partner | Francisco Sá Carneiro |
Children | 3 |
Parent |
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Ebba Merete "Snu" Abecassis (born Ebba Merete Seidenfaden; 7 October 1940 – 4 December 1980) was a Danish-Portuguese publisher, who founded Publicações Dom QuixoteEstado Novo.
, a publishing house that became famous for publishing left-wing works, associated with ideas contrary to the dictatorship of theDaughter of the Danish journalists Erik Seidenfaden and Jytte Kaastrup-Olsen , Ebbe Merete was born in Copenhagen on 7 October 1940. As a child she was given the nickname Snu, which means "smart" in the Danish language.[1]
In 1961, she married Alberto Vasco Abecassis.[1] She moved to Portugal after a year and the couple's three children were born there.[2] In 1965, under her direction, the publishing house Publicações Dom Quixote was founded in Lisbon.[3] The company published both left-wing literary works and non-fiction, with a focus on those that were challenging to Portuguese political authority, or were as yet unpublished in Portuguese.[4] It was the first to publish Pippi Longstocking and Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Portugal,[5] as well as the first to publish The Two Cultures by C P Snow.[6]
Francisco Sá Carneiro was a Portuguese politician with whom Abecassis had an affair. She divorced her husband, but Sá Carneiro was unable to obtain a divorce from his wife. Despite this, they began to live together and also died together on 4 December 1980, in the Camarate air crash, which, in addition to Snu and Sá Carneiro, killed Adelino Amaro da Costa. The three were heading to a rally for the end of António Soares Carneiro's presidential campaign.[7] It has been speculated that the crash was the result of an assassination attempt, but no group was prosecuted.[8]
The film SNU was released in 2019, directed by Patrícia Sequeira; it was the second most popular national release of the year.[9] Abecassis also featured in the series, 3 Mulheres , first aired on 26 October 2018, which told the story of her life alongside that of Maria Armanda Falcão and Natália Correia.[10]
In 2011 Cândida Pinto[11][1][12] In 2010, the final minute of Abecassis' life was the subject of a play, which premiered at the Casafez theatre in Lisbon.[5] Published in 2003, Abecassis' mother wrote a biography of her daughter six years after her death.[13]
published a biography titled Snu, which was translated into Danish in 2013.Elizabeth Hera Garton hybridised an orchid and named it Snu after Abecassis.[14]