Hilda Hilst

Hilda Hilst was born on 21 April 1930 in Jaú, in the state of São Paulo. Her father, a coffee planter and journalist who suffered from schizophrenia, was confined in several psychiatric institutions. She studied law at the University of São Paulo, graduating in 1952. She then settled near Campinas, in the Casa do Sol, a house she had designed near her mother's farm, and devoted herself to writing. A poet, playwright and novelist, she turned in 1990 to an erotic vein, according to a blog devoted to translation. She died in Campinas on 4 February 2004.

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