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Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon (Rio de Janeiro, 1937) is one of Brazil’s leading women writers of fiction. She is a member and former President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and has been translated into many languages. A bold critic of the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 1980s, she participated with Rubem Fonseca and others in confronting the regime and demanding freedom of speech and civil rights for artists and intellectuals. Her collection O calor das coisas (1980; The Heat of Things) addresses the repercussions of repression on Brazilian society. Her latest novel is titled Um dia chegarei a Sagres (2020; One Day I Will Arrive in Sagres). Written by hand because of her failing eyesight during a stay in Lisbon, this bildungsroman about Mateus, a young peasant, is set in Portugal in the nineteenth century, where Mateus hopes to find the freedom he is denied by his social class. The novel seeks to highlight the history and extreme conditions of Portugal experienced by citizens who are overlooked in official narratives.