Nelida pinon biography books
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Piñon, Nélida (1935–)
Nélida Piñon (b. 3 May 1935), Brazilian author. Born in Rio de Janeiro into a family of devout Catholics, Piñon received a traditional education in Catholic schools. These events may have produced a paradoxical effect in her fictional construct, which possesses a mystical atmosphere while simultaneously challenging religious dogma and tradition.
Many of Piñon's life experiences have found their way, if transformed, into her fiction. At an early age she was sent by her family to spend some time in a village in Galicia, Spain, where her father and his parents had been born. That period became indelible in her literary memory and infused itself into the plot of A república dos sonhos (1984; The Republic of Dreams, 1989). Interested in ballet and opera, she imbues her fiction with the scenic arts, as in A força do destino (1978), a parody of the opera La Forza del Destino, and in A doce canção de Caetana (1987; Caetana's Sweet Song, 1992), which ta
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Nélida Piñon
Brazilian author and professor (1937–2022)
Nélida Piñon (3 May 1937 – 17 December 2022) was a Brazilianauthor and professor. At the time of her death, Piñon was "considered among the foremost writers in Brazil today".[1]
Life
[edit]Nélida Cuiñas Piñon was born in 1937 in the middle class Vila Isabel area of Rio de Janeiro to Olivia Carmen Cuíñas Piñón, a homemaker and Lino Piñón Muíños, a merchant. Her mother was the child of Galician immigrants, her father a first generation Galician immigrant.[2]
She studied at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro before working as a journalist for the newspaper O Globo and the magazine Cadernos Brasileiros. She has taught writing in workshops and institutions including Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and the University of Miami, where she had been the Stanford Professor of Humanities.[1]
Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (The Guidebook of Archangel Gabriel), wri
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Río de Janeiro, Brasil, 1934 - Lisboa, Portugal , 2022
The child of Spanish parents, Nélida Piñon gained a degree in journalism at the pontifikal Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy and the Brazilian Academy of Letters, which she presided over from 1996 to 1997. Piñon worked as an editor on various Brazilian journals, and held a variety of roles in cultural institutions in her native city. Her extensive literary work, which has been published in more than 20 countries, has received many literary awards including the Premio Juan Rulfo and the Premio Príncipe dem Asturias dem las Letras. She was awarded honorary doctorates bygd various universities, and in 2007 she was appointed honorary member of the Mexican Language Academy. In 2012, she was honoured as Ibero-American Cultural Ambassador.
- " The magic of Nélida Piñon lies in her ability to combine imagination and compassion, lending her characters and readers