| Diná Silveira de Queirós | |
| Birth Name: | Dinah Silveira Ribeiro |
| Birth Date: | 9 November 1911 |
| Birth Place: | São Paulo |
| Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Nationality: | Brazilian |
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Dinah Silveira Ribeiro (also known as Diná Silveira de Queirós; November 9, 1911 - November 27, 1982), was a Brazilian writer of novels, short stories, and chronicles. She received the Machado de Assis Prize.
Silveira de Queirós was born November 9, 1911, in São Paulo. She published her main works between 1939 and 1955. Silveira de Queirós was a Machado de Assis Prize laureate and the "second woman to be elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters". She died November 27, 1982, in Rio de Janeiro.[1] Her novel A Muralha was the basis for the 1968 telenovela A Muralha and for the 2000 television series A Muralha.
In 1961, she was widowed by her first husband. In 1962, she was appointed cultural attaché at the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid, and soon after married again to diplomat Dário Moreira de Castro Alves, with whom she moved to Moscow, in the then Soviet Union. During this period, she wrote chronicles that were later included in the 1969 volume Café da Manhã. In 1964 she returned to Brazil, to return to Europe again two years later, settling in Italy. Dinah died on November 27, 1982, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.