Nelida pinon gale biography

Brazilian author and professor (1937–2022)

Nélida Piñon (3 May 1937 – 17 December 2022) was a Brazilianauthor and professor. At the time of her death, Piñon was "considered among the foremost writers in Brazil today".^[1]

Life

Nélida Cuiñas Piñon was born in 1937 in the middle class Vila Isabel area of Rio de Janeiro to Olivia Carmen Cuíñas Piñón, a homemaker and Lino Piñón Muíños, a merchant.

Her mother was the child of Galician immigrants, her father a first generation Galician immigrant.^[2]

She studied at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro before working as a journalist for the newspaper O Globo and the magazine Cadernos Brasileiros.

She has taught writing in workshops and institutions including Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and the University of Miami, where she had been the Stanford Professor of Humanities.^[1]

Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (The Guidebook of Archangel Gabriel), written i