Lygia fagundes telles biography pequena sereia

Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazilian writer, was born on April 19, 1923, in São Paulo, and died on April 3, 2022, aged 98. She published her first book of short stories — basements and townhouses — in 1938.

Graduated in Law, she worked as a prosecutor at the São Paulo State Pension Institute, was president of the Brazilian Cinematheque and was part of the commission that, in 1977, handed over to the Minister of Justice the Manifesto of Intellectualspetition against censorship.

The writer, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and winner of prizes such as Jabuti and Camões, belongs to the third modernist generation (or postmodernism).

Thus, her narratives are characterized by an intimate prose, centered on the psychological dimension of the characters and, sometimes, marked by magical or fantastic realism, without losing sight of the political and social vision of her time, because, as the author states: “I am, as a writer, a witness of our time and our society”.

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