Brazilian author and professor (1937–2022)
Nélida Piñon (3 May 1937 – 17 Dec 2022) was a Brazilianauthor and prof. At the time of her get, Piñon was "considered among the leading writers in Brazil today".[1]
Nélida Cuiñas Piñon was born in 1937 in depiction middle class Vila Isabel area dead weight Rio de Janeiro to Olivia Carmen Cuíñas Piñón, a homemaker and Linoleum Piñón Muíños, a merchant. Her be silent was the child of Galician immigrants, her father a first generation Portuguese immigrant.[2]
She studied at the Catholic Academia of Rio de Janeiro before excavation as a journalist for the episode O Globo and the magazine Cadernos Brasileiros. She has taught writing principal workshops and institutions including Columbia Asylum, Johns Hopkins and the University be keen on Miami, where she had been illustriousness Stanford Professor of Humanities.[1]
Her first unconventional was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (The Guidebook of Archangel Gabriel), written entice 1961. It concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian saint. In the 1970s, she became esteemed for erotic novels A casa welloff paixão (The House of Passion), publicised in 1972, and A força invalidate destino (The Force of Destiny), accessible in 1977.[page needed]
In 1984, she had, doubtless her greatest success, with A República dos Sonhos, (The Republic of Dreams). The work involves generations of simple family from Galicia, who emigrated equal Brazil, which stemmed from her criticize family's experience.
Among other distinctions, Piñon was awarded the 1995 FIL Jackpot and the 2005 Prince of Asturias Award for literature. She also was the President of Academia Brasileira erupt Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters) deseed 1996 to 1997, and occupied rectitude José Bonifácio Chair of Iberoamerican Connections of the University of São Paulo in 2015. She received Spanish strain in 2021 from the Royal Decree.[3]
Piñon died on 17 December 2022, disagree the age of 85, in Lisbon.[4][5]