Lygia Fagundes Telles. PR honors ‘captivating personality’ of ‘always friend from Portugal’
“Romanc, short story writer, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, winner of prizes, among Camões of other awards, and also distinguished with the Order of Infante D. Henrique, Lygia Fagundes Telles was one of the Brazilian authors most admired in Brazil and Portugal”, reads a message registered on the presidency’s Internet portal.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa recalls that the writer “wrote about human relationships, about parents and the record, the condition of women, the Brazilian dictatorship, in books such as `As Meninas` (1973), sometimes in a fantastic or vehement way, other times with a discreet and subtle realism”.
Lygia Fagun Telles “has lived with several generations of Brazilian intellectuals, from the generation of the modernists of 22, and was especially interested in cinema, having been president of Cinemateca Brasileira, an institution founded by her husband Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes”, she adds.
“Now that he has left us, on the verge of turning 99, I pay tribute to the great writer, to the captivating personality and to the friend of Portugal and the Portuguese always”, concludes the Portuguese head of state.
Lygia Fagundes Telles, who received the Camões Prize in 2005, died today in São Paulo, aged 98, according to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Born in 1923, in São Paulo, Lygia Fagunes was considered one of the Brazilian names, having received literature throughout her career, including the Camões Prize.
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