Lygia Fagundes Telles
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Born | Lygia de Azevedo Fagundes 19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil |
Died | 3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 103)
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Language | Portuguese |
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Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles (
Early life
Lygia Fagundes was born on 19 April 1918 in São Paulo,[1] Brazil, to Maria do Rosário da Silva Jardim de Moura and Durval de Azevedo Fagundes.[2][3] Her father was an attorney and public prosecutor who also served as a district attorney, commissioner of police and a judge.[3][4] Her mother, known as Zazita, was a pianist.[3] Because of the nature of her father's work, the family moved often throughout the state, living at various times in Apiaí, Assis, Itatinga and Sertãozinho. When she was eight years old, Fagundes moved with her mother to Rio de Janeiro, where they remained for five years.[5] Returning to São Paulo, she enrolled in Caetano de Campos School, and graduated in 1937. With proceeds from her father, in 1938, she published Porões e Sobrados (Grounds and Townhouses), a collection of short stories.[5][6]
In 1939, Fagundes graduated with her pre-law and physical education degrees from the University of São Paulo (USP). In 1941, she enrolled in the Law School at USP (Portuguese: Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco)[2][5] as one of only six women students in a class of over one hundred men.[7] Simultaneously, she began working for the government, with the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as writing her second book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), which she published in 1944. The following year, she graduated with her law degree and in 1947, married her international law professor, Goffredo Telles Jr.[5] The couple would have their only child, Goffredo da Silva Telles Neto in 1952.[2][3]
Career
Telles continued to work in civil service and became a collaborator with A Manhã (The Morning), writing a weekly column for the journal located in Rio.
Telles continued writing in the following decades, such works as: Verão no Aquário (Summer at the Aquarium, 1963),
Telles' most acclaimed novel, As Meninas, tells the story of three young women in the early 1970s, a difficult time in the political history of Brazil due to the repression by the military dictatorship.
In 1985, Telles was honored as a commander in the
Death
Telles died on 3 April 2022 in São Paulo from natural causes, aged 103.
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b "Lygia Fagundes Telles: a centenária que não quis sê-lo". Daniel Taddone (in Portuguese). Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Lamas 2004, p. 67.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Brazilian Academy of Letters 2016.
- ^ a b Erro-Peralta & Silva 2000, p. 46.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Instituto Cultural Itaú 2017.
- ^ Lamas 2004, p. 68.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Ruy 2013.
- ^ Lamas 2004, p. 69.
- ^ a b Lamas 2004, p. 70.
- ^ a b c Lamas 2004, p. 72.
- ^ Lamas 2004, p. 73.
- ^ Lamas 2004, pp. 75–75.
- ^ Lamas 2004, p. 76.
- ^ Lamas 2004, pp. 72–73.
- ^ Folha de S.Paulo 1994.
- ^ Lamas 2004, p. 77.
- ^ Lamas 2004, p. 80.
- ^ Suplemento do JL 2005.
- ^ Globo 2016.
- ^ "Escritora Lygia Fagundes Telles morre aos 98 anos em SP". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "Morre a escritora Lygia Fagundes Telles, acadêmica da ABL, aos 98 anos".
- ^ Astor, Michael (4 April 2022). "Lygia Fagundes Telles, Popular Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 98". The New York Times.
- ^ "Lygia Fagundes Telles tinha 103 anos ao morrer, não 98, revela documento; ABL diz que 'escritora preferia manter a discrição'" [Lygia Fagundes Telles was 103 years old when she died, not 98, reveals document; ABL says 'writer preferred to keep a low profile']. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Corpo da escritora e acadêmica Lygia Fagundes Telles é cremado em SP" (in Portuguese). Globo. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "SP decreta luto de três dias pela morte da escritora Lygia Fagundes" (in Portuguese). Diario Dopoder. 3 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
Bibliography
- Erro-Peralta, Nora; Silva, Caridad, eds. (2000). "Lygia Fagundes Telles". Beyond the Border: A new age in Latin American women's fiction (Revised ed.). Gainesville, Florida: ISBN 0-8130-1785-8.
- Instituto Cultural Itaú (2017). "Lygia Fagundes Telles". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileiras (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Itaú Cultural. ISBN 978-85-7979-060-7. Archived from the originalon 23 December 2016.
- Lamas, Berenice Sica (2004). O duplo em Lygia Fagundes Telles: um estudo em literatura e psicologia [The duplicate in Lygia Fagundes Telles: a study in literature and psychology] (in Portuguese). Porto Alegre, Brasil: EDIPUCRS. ISBN 978-85-7430-439-7.
- Ruy, José Carlos (20 April 2013). "Lygia Fagundes Telles: escrever é meu ofício" [Lygia Fagundes Telles: writing is my craft] (in Portuguese). Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain: Sermos Galiza. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- "Biografia: Lygia Fagundes Telles" [Biography: Lygia Fagundes Telles]. Academia Brasileira de Letras (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Brazilian Academy of Letters. 12 April 2016. Archived from the originalon 19 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- "Lygia Fagundes Telles é indicada ao Nobel de Literatura" [Lygia Fagundes Telles is nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature] (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Globo1. 3 February 2016. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- "'Manifesto dos Intelectuais' pediu o fim da censura em janeiro de 77" ['Manifesto of the Intellectuals' asked for the end of the censorship in January of 77]. Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil. 3 April 1994. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- "Prémio Camões 2005" [Camões Prize 2005]. Suplemento do JL (in Portuguese). XXV (87). São Paulo, Brazil: Instituto Camões. 21 June 2005. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
Further reading
- Irwin Stern, Dictionary of Brazilian Literature, Greenwood Press (1988), ISBN 0-313-24932-6– p. 337