Africa-Press – Angola. Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, who received the Camões Prize in 2005, died today in São Paulo, aged 98, the Brazilian Academy of Letters reported.
Born in 1923, in São Paulo, Lygia Fagundes Telles was considered one of the greatest names in Brazilian literature, having received dozens of awards throughout her career, including the Camões Prize.
The Brazilian writer won the Camões Prize in 2005, having received the award in a formal session at the Serralves Foundation, in Porto, on the occasion of the VIII Luso-Brazilian Summit.
On the occasion, he told Lusa that the prize was “the harvest of a large and ancient plantation” to which he had been “dedicating himself with patience, hope and passion”.
She assumed herself as “a writer from the third world, attentive to inequalities”, committed to “helping the reader” through her books, guaranteeing to seek “to give the reader comfort and love” and defending that “salvation is in art”. .
He has published several works, including novels and short stories, including “As Meninas”, “Stories of Mystery”, “Summer in the Aquarium” and “Seminary of the Rats”.
According to the Brazilian academy, the 1970s were a decade of intense literary activity for the novelist and marked the beginning of her career, having published some of her most recognized books.
In the following decade, he published “A Disciplina do Amor” (1980), which received the Jabuti Award and the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award, and the novel “As Horas Nuas” (1989) received the Pedro Nava Award for Best Book in Year.
Among the award-winning novels are “A Noite Escura e Mais Eu (1995)”, which received the Arthur Azevedo Prize from the National Library, the Jabuti Prize and the APLUB Prize for Literature and the texts of the book “Invenção e Memória” (Invenção e Memória). 2000), which received the Jabuti Prize, APCA and the “Golden Dolphin”.
Lygia Fagundes Telles worked as Attorney at the Instituto de Previdência do Estado de São Paulo, a position she held until her retirement.
He was also president of the Cinemateca Brasileira and was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and the Academia Paulista de Letras.
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