She has died in Lisbon at the age of 85, according to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
The Brazilian writer Nélida Piñon, winner of the 2005 Prince of Asturias Award and who recently received Spanish nationality due to her family’s Galician origin, died today in Lisbon at the age of 85, according to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. .
Piñon, author of 25 books, including novels, short stories, essays and memoirs, was the first Brazilian to receive the main Ibero-American literature prizes, such as the Juan Rulfo or Menéndez Pelayo, and also the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL).
Until now, the reason for his death has not been reported, but it was learned that the ABL is managing the transfer of the body so that it can be watched in the ‘Petit Trianon’, the main hall of the Academy, which was like a second home for the writer.
The writer had a close link with Spain because her parents and her grandparents were Galician emigrants in Brazil and that is why she received the nationality of the Iberian country at the beginning of this year.
Piñon debuted in literature with the novel ‘Gabriel Arcanjo’s Guide-Map’, released in 1961 and her last work was ‘One day I will arrive at Sagrés’ (Record), presented in Brazil in October 2020.
Her masterpiece is ‘The Republic of Dreams’ (1984), which narrates the massive exodus of Galician emigrants to Latin America.
The writer, along with Jorge Amado and 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 Argentine Julio Cortázar, the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa and the Mexican Carlos Fuentes.