Dora Vasconcellos

Dora Alencar Vasconcellos (1910–1973) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. She served as the Brazilian ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago from 1970 to her death.^[1] She was Brazil's second female diplomat to become ambassador in 1964, 9 years after Odette de Carvalho e Souza.^[2]

Dora Alencar Vasconcellos (1910–1973)

Dora was also the first female diplomat to be named consul general of Brazil in New York,^[3] where she was responsible for organizing 1962's Bossa Nova show at Carnegie Hall. Her best-known poem is "Canção do Amor", which was performed by Heitor Villa-Lobos.^{[citation needed]}