‘Nice loss for literature’: Brazilian author Nelida Pinon dies at 85 | World News

Brazilian author Nelida Pinon, whose work has been translated into greater than 30 languages, died Saturday on the age of 85, her publishing home introduced.

"Nelida Pinon died as we speak in a hospital in Lisbon. The reason for loss of life has not but been confirmed," the publishing home File mentioned in an announcement.

Her physique might be repatriated to Brazil and she or he might be buried within the mausoleum of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), in a cemetery in Rio de Janeiro.

"It is an important loss for Brazilian literature. She was in all probability the best residing Brazilian author," ABL president Merval Pereira instructed Globonews, the place he's a columnist.

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1937, in 2005 Pinon acquired the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, thought-about Spain's equal of a Nobel, for all of her work.

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Pinon, whose first title, Nelida, is the anagram of that of her grandfather, Daniel, has revealed round twenty books, together with the novels "The Home of Ardour" (1972) and "The Republic of Desires" (1984), impressed by the story of her household which emigrated to Brazil from Galicia, Spain.

She additionally wrote collections of brief tales. A pioneer in a number of respects, the Brazilian author grew to become in 1998 the primary lady physician honoris causa of the College of Santiago de Compostela.

Pinon joined the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the Brazilian equal of the French Academy, in 1989, and 7 years later grew to become the primary lady to chair it since its founding a century earlier.