- In 1964, she won Grande Prémio de Poesia by Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (Portuguese Society of Authors).
- She was a writer and a poetess. Many of her poems are related to Nature and the Sea. Sophia was also a translator. She was responsible for the translation of "Hamlet", Shakespear, Dante's "Purgatory" and "Le Soulier de Satin", Paul Claudel.
- In 1995, Sophia won the Petrarca award and in 1999 won Prémio Camões. Sophia was the first woman to win this award. In 2001 won the Max Jacob Étranger Award and in 2003 the Ibero-American Poetry Quenn Sophia Award.
- Children: Maria Sousa Tavares, Isabel Sofia Sousa Tavares (1950), Miguel Sousa Tavares (1952), Sofia Sousa Tavares and Francisco Xavier Sousa Tavares (b. 1956).
- In 1895, Sophia's father purchased Quinta do Campo Alegre, a big farm, in Oporto, where she and her brothers grew up.
- Sophia has three younger brothers: João Henrique (1920-1967), Tomás (1922-1993) and Gustavo António (1923-2006). Her brother João Henrique was an architect, married to Maria Margarida de Sousa and father of João Henrique (1948), Luis Fernando (1949), Maria Margarida (1952), Gonçalo (1955) and António (1956). Her brother Tomás was a diplomat, graduated in Law and married to Maria Ferreira de Lemos, mother of his two daughters: Maria da Luz (1953) and Rita (1958). Sophia's youngest brother Gustavo married twice: first with Maria Teresa Silva and together they had Maria Joana (1951), Gustavo João (1953), Olga Teresa (1954), Maria Teresa (1957); he then married to Maria do Carmo Ferreira, mother os his son Tomás João (1981).
- Parents: João Henrique Andresen (1891-1950), a Porto's wine merchant, and Maria Amélia de Mello Breyner (1898-1967).
- From her father side, the family is from Denmark.
- Sophia studied Philology at Lisbon University, but never finish the studies.
- She was a member of Lisbon Academy of Sciences and in 1975 was elected for the Portuguese Parlament as a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party.
- On February 13 1987, Sophia was awarded with the Grã-Cruz da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique, a Portuguese honorific order to distinguish those who provide relevant services to the country.
- Sophia started to write children's books when her own children where very young, so that she could entertain them. She published six books, some of which are required reading in schools of Portugal as part of the academic curriculum.
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