Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst

Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst was born on the 21^st April 1930; she died on the 4^th February 2004. She is known with the name Hilda Hilst. Hs was a brazilian poet, playwright, and a novelist. Her fiction and poetry are aklways on the theme of delicate initimacy, while soke of them are treating the topic of insanity and incorporation of supernatural activities.

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Early Life and Studies

Hilda Hilst was born in Jaú, São Paulo State. After going to the Colégia Santa Marcelina in the city of Sao Paulo, Hilda Hilst studied at the Mackenzie Presbyterian Institute in Sao Paulo from the year 1945 to the year 1947, Hilda Hilst enrolled to study law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo and completed her studies in trhe year 1952 and it was there that she met her best friend called Lygia Fagundes Telles, who was also a writer of the country.

She moved to Casa do Sol in the year 1966, a country seat by the Campinas side.

Hilda Hilst died in campinas.

Career

Hilda Hilst wrote for close to 50 years and she collected the most crucial literary prizes of the country. Her works were in different stages, startig as a poet, to publishing Presságio in the year 1950. She started publishing staging plays in the country in the year 1967 and moved into the prose genre in the year 1970. Allthrough her career, starting from the year 1958 with Adoniron Barbosa, many musicians of the county selected her poems for their music.

Hilda Hilst was the winner of the Prêmio PEN Clube of São Paulo for her waork called Sete Cantos do Poeta para o Anjo in the year 1962. The play called O Verdugo took the Prêmio Anchieta in the year 1969. She was the winner of the Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte in the year 1977, with her book called Ficções, the best book of the year. Hilda Hilst was also the winner of the Grande Prêmio da Crítica para o Conjunto da Obra, by Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte in the year 1981 and in the year 1984, she was awarded the Jabuti Prize by the Câmara Brasileira do Livro for her work called Cantares de Perda e Predileção and the following year, she won the Prêmio Cassiano Ricardo. Her book called Rútilo Nada, which was published in the year 1993 was winner of the Jabuti prize for the best short story and on the 9^th August2002, Hilda Hilst was give an awarfd in the 47^th edition of the Prêmio Moinho Santista in the poetry section.

Hilda Hilst took part in the Programa do Artista Residente from the year 1982 to the year 1995 at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, and her personal files have been in the IEL-UNICAMP and have made available to researchers all over the planet.

Hilda Hilst discussed the issues of controversial politics and social issues like obscenity, queer