Hilda Hilst (April 21, 1930 – February 4, 2004) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. She is lauded as one of the most important Portuguese-language authors of the twentieth century. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. Hilst greatly revered the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett and the influence of their styles like stream of consciousness and fractured reality in her own work.
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Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst 21 April 1930 Jau, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Died |
4 February 2004 (aged 73) Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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