Lygia Fagundes Telles

Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles (née de Azevedo Fagundes; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈliʒiə faˈɡũdʒis ˈtɛlis]; April 19, 1918[1] — April 3, 2022) was a Brazilian novelist and writer. She won the Camões Prize. She was elected as the third woman in the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1985. She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.[2]

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BornLygia de Azevedo Fagundes
(1923-04-19)19 April 1923
São Paulo, Brazil
Died3 April 2022(2022-04-03) (aged 103)
São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • writer
LanguagePortuguese
Notable works
  • Ciranda de Pedra (1955)
  • Antes do Baile Verde (1970)
  • As Meninas (1973)
Spouse
Gofredo Telles Júnior
(m. 1947; sep. 1960)

Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
(m. 1962; died 1977)

Telles died on April 3, 2022 in São Paulo, Brazil two weeks before her 99th birthday.[3]

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