Nélida Piñón, an essential part of the Latin American boom, died

December 18, 2022 at 03:27 p.m.
Source: OneTV
Source: OneTV

 

Nelida Pinon, the Brazilian writer who won the Prince of Asturias and who recently received Spanish nationality due to the Galician origin of his family, died this Saturday in Lisbon at 85 years of age, according to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Author of 25 books, including novels, short stories, essays and memoirs, she was the first Brazilian to receive the main Ibero-American literature prizes, such as the Juan Rulfo or Menendez Pelayo, and also the first woman to chair the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL).

The writer, along with Jorge Amado y Paulo Coelho, is one of the best-known names in Brazilian literature abroad and was part of the so-called 'Latin American boom', which also includes authors such as the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, the Argentinian Julio Cortazar, a Peruvian man Mario Vargas Llosa and the Mexican Carlos Fuentes.

Daughter of Spanish parents, Nelida Pinon Graduated in Journalism from the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy and the Brazilian Academy of Letters, of which he was president from 1996 to 1997.

Throughout her life, she was editor of several Brazilian magazines, and held various functions in cultural entities in her hometown.

Her extensive literary production published in more than 25 countries made her a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Language and an honorary doctorate from the University of Santiago de Compostela, as well as Ibero-American Ambassador of Culture, among dozens of other awards. the author of To Republic two sonhos y Gabriel Arcanjo map guide She was also the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Academy of Letters, and a key for Brazilian literature to break borders.

Piñón's writing takes refuge in myths, from the classics, verified with his speech is dotted without affectation of Greek gods, even the folkloric ones, and in his living narrators; is rooted at the same time in the Brazil modern and in the heroic and tragic Iberian tradition.

Leave the world as a writer representing a literary version of the musical encounter between the famed Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía y Rabello Rabello, a Brazilian guitarist bent on revolutionizing the sophisticated samba-based chorinho style before his untimely death last year.

Pinion loaded, according to Joan Royo Gual, in his own words, the “stigma of survival”, inherited “from the people of the sea and the mountains”.

“She was probably the greatest living writer of Brazil. It is a loss for the country," said the current president of the ABL, Merval Pereira.

 

"I am happy because literature has allowed me to be in this place and live in all the worlds"