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In 1960 she separated from her husband. Simultaneously, she began working for the government, with the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as writing her second book of short stories, Praia Viva (Living Beach), which she published in 1944. Telles felt that it was the first work she had produced that marked her maturity as a writer, often criticizing her earlier works.

Lygia Fagundes Telles is the 4,052nd most popular writer (up from 4,324th in 2024), the 430th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 462nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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Among writers, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 4,052 out of 7,302.

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Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Her books have been translated into Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and been reprinted in multiple editions in Portuguese. Before her are Onomacritus, Leif G. W. Persson, Jurek Becker, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Zsigmond Móricz, and Gary Chapman.

She was nominated for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Brazilian Writers' Union.

Lygia Fagundes Telles

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1923 - 2022

Lygia Fagundes Telles

Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles (née de Azevedo Fagundes; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈliʒiɐ faˈɡũdʒis ˈtɛlis]; 19 April 1918 – 3 April 2022), also known as "the lady of Brazilian literature" and "the greatest Brazilian writer" while alive, was a Brazilian novelist and writer, considered by academics, critics and readers to be one of the most important and notable Brazilian writers in the 20th century and the history of Brazilian literature.

In 1998, she was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in the grade of chevalier and was honored as a grand officer of the Gabriela Mistral Order of Educational and Cultural Merit from Chile. Returning to São Paulo, she enrolled in Caetano de Campos School, and graduated in 1937. After her are Ana Maria Machado (1941), Rachel de Queiroz (1910), Moacyr Scliar (1937), Gonçalves Dias (1823), Graciliano Ramos (1892), and Nélida Piñon (1937).

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Novelist and short story writer, she was the great representative of the Post-Modernist movement.

Her mother, known as Zazita, was a pianist. Before her are Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Charlie Mariano, Mikhail Yegorov, Inger Jacobsen, Og Mandino, and Karl-Heinz Metzner. Among people deceased in 2022, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 302. After her are Emmy Hennings, Andrejs Pumpurs, Bret Harte, Bohuslav Balbín, Emma Lazarus, and Marcel Jouhandeau.

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  • Onomacritus

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    HPI: 57.89

    Rank: 4,046

  • Leif G.

    W. Persson

    1945 - Present

    HPI: 57.89

    Rank: 4,047

  • Jurek Becker

    1937 - 1997

    HPI: 57.88

    Rank: 4,048

  • Mohammed Hussein Heikal

    1888 - 1956

    HPI: 57.88

    Rank: 4,049

  • Zsigmond Móricz

    1879 - 1942

    HPI: 57.88

    Rank: 4,050

  • Gary Chapman

    1938 - Present

    HPI: 57.88

    Rank: 4,051

  • Lygia Fagundes Telles

    1923 - 2022

    HPI: 57.87

    Rank: 4,052

  • Emmy Hennings

    1885 - 1948

    HPI: 57.87

    Rank: 4,053

  • Andrejs Pumpurs

    1841 - 1902

    HPI: 57.86

    Rank: 4,054

  • Bret Harte

    1836 - 1902

    HPI: 57.86

    Rank: 4,055

  • Bohuslav Balbín

    1621 - 1688

    HPI: 57.86

    Rank: 4,056

  • Emma Lazarus

    1849 - 1887

    HPI: 57.86

    Rank: 4,057

  • Marcel Jouhandeau

    1888 - 1979

    HPI: 57.85

    Rank: 4,058

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 247.

Before her are José de Anchieta Fontana (1940), Lisa Ono (1962), Sérgio da Rocha (1959), Edu (1949), Roberto de Assis Moreira (1971), and Jaime Lerner (1937).

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In 1941, she enrolled in the Law School at USP (Portuguese: Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco) as one of only six women students in a class of over one hundred men. In 1960, Telles divorced, and the following year began working as a solicitor for the Institute of Providence (Portuguese: Instituto de Providência) of the State of São Paulo.

In 1985, she became the third woman elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, occupying chair no. In 2005 Telles won the Camões Prize, the highest literary award of the Portuguese language for her body of works.