Lygia Fagundes Telles, a writer and ABL member, passed away Friday in Sao Paulo at the age of 98.
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Lygia Fagundes Telles |
Lygia was named intellectual of the year in 2009 and received the Juca Pato Prize in 2005 for her body of work as a whole.
At the age of 18, he graduated from the University of So Paulo's Largo de So Francisco Law School, where he was a member of the Moot Court Competition team (USP). In 1987, she took up Pedro Calmon's seat in the ABL's 16th chair.
Lygia died of natural causes at her house in So Paulo. "Our beloved was taken from us. She walked out without a fuss! Then then, she'll be here forever. Especially in the hearts of her closest associates! "José Renato Nalini, the current president of the Academia Paulista de Letras, remarked on social media. So Paulo's Academia Paulista de Letras will have a wake today beginning from 4 p.m. Vila Alpina Cemetery will be the final resting place for her ashes.
When it comes to Lygia's work there is a lot of variety in terms of the topics she touches on. It also addresses social issues and delves into the world of women, giving social moralism a scathing examination and revealing its political leanings.
Awards received by Lygia Fagundes
Pores e sobrados, her first collection of short tales, was released in 1938. Four times he was awarded Brazil's most prestigious literary honour, the Jabuti Prize. With O Jardim Selvagem, he accomplished the feat for the first time in 1966. As Meninas, a book he wrote in 1973, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1996, with A Noite Escura e mais Eu and, in 2001, with the collection of short tales Invenço e Memória, he re-established himself as a writer once again.
The Cames Prize, given to a Portuguese-language author for their whole body of work, was also given to her in 2005. Thirty-three people from five different nations have now been added to a list that includes hers.
The televisions were won over by Lygia's efforts. TV Globo produced two adaptations of Ciranda de Pedra, a 1954 book. Antônio Teixeira Filho wrote and directed TV Globo's debut telenovela, which broadcast in 1981. Alcides Nogueira wrote and directed the second episode, which aired in 2008 on Telemundo.
In addition, his name occurs in the annals of Brazilian film history. The film Capitu (1968) was based on Machado de Assis' book Dom Casmurro and co-starred her second husband Paulo Emlio Sales Gomes, a film critic, with whom she was married from 1963 to 1977, when she lost him to death. screenplay that was eventually awarded the Candango Award by the Festival de Brasil.
During the military dictatorship, the writer fought against censorship with a law degree. Nélida Pion, Jefferson Ribeiro de Andrade, and Hélio Silva were part of a panel that worked on the Manifesto of Intellectuals, a petition that gained traction in 1977 when more than a thousand people signed on to it. Censorship was a major issue for intellectuals during this time period, and this was their most significant protest.
No one is descended from Lygia. Goffredo da Silva Telles Neto, her lone child and only child, passed away in 2006 at the age of 52. Her first spouse, the judge Gofredo Teles Jnior, had a relationship with her from 1947 until 1960.
There are several notable works by him that include: Antes do Baile Verde in 1970, As Meninas in 1973, Seminary of the Rats in 1977, Prodigal Children in 1978, A Disciplina do Amor in 1980, As Horas Nuas in 1989, A Noite Escura e Mais Eu in 1995, and Invenço e Memória in 1995. (2000). Ciranda de Pedra (1954) was the inspiration for the soap drama on Globo, based on his novel.