Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt
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Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt (June 12, 1896 — January 30, 1995), also known as Majoy, was a Brazilian journalist who worked as a war correspondent in Europe during World War II. In 1941, she became the first woman to receive the Maria Moors Cabot Prize.
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho was born in 1896 in Paris, where her father, Martinho Carlos de Arruda Botelho, was working as editor of the magazine Revista Moderna.[1] Her grandfather was Antônio Carlos de Arruda Botelho, founder of the Brazilian city of São Carlos.[1] Due to the poor health of her mother, Alexandra de Markoff, Sylvia was brought to Brazil as a child and raised by her uncle and aunt Antonio Moreira de Barros and Carlota Moreira de Barros.[1] She studied at the Colégio Des Oiseaux, a girls' school in São Paulo.[1]