
Reuters
Brazil literary great Nelida Pinon dies at 85
Writer and scholar Nelida Pinon, the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), died at age 85 in Lisbon, according to the literary club and Brazilian media reports. Pinon won national and international awards and became an elected member of the ABL in 1989. Pinon was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1937 to a Galician family and as a child chose to be a writer, ABL’s website said.
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