Nélida Piñon
Biography
Nélida Piñona was born in 1937 in Rio de Janeiro. Her parents were Spanish, from Galicia. Her first name is an anagram of Daniel. She studied journalism at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and worked for various magazines, both in Brazil and elsewhere. She has since gone on to write novels, stories, essays, children’s books and her memoirs. She died in 2022.
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Bibliography
1961 Guia-mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (novel)
1963 Madeira feita de cruz (novel)
1966 Tempo das frutas (stories)
1969 Fundador (novel)
1973 Sala de armas (stories)
1974 Tebas do meu coração (novel)
1977 A casa da paixão (novel)
1977 A força do destino (novel)
1980 O calor das coisas
1984 A república dos sonhos (The Republic of Dreams) (novel)
1987 A doce canção de Caetana (Caetana’s Sweet Song) (novel)
1994 O pão de cada dia: fragmentos (stories)
1996 A roda do vento (children’s)
1999 Até amanhã, outra vez (journalism)
2001 Cortejo do Divino e outros contos escolhidos (novel)
2002 O presumível coração da América (essays)
2004 Vozes do deserto (Voices of the Desert) (novel)
2008 Aprendiz de Homero (essays)
2009 Coração Andarilho (memoirs)
2012 O Livro das Horas (memoirs)
2014 A Camisa do Marido (stories)
2016 Filhos da América (essays)
2019 Uma Furtiva Lágrima (memoirs)