Nélida Piñon

At the time of her death, Piñon was "considered among the foremost writers in Brazil today".

[1] Nélida Cuiñas Piñon was born in 1937 in the middle class Vila Isabel area of Rio de Janeiro to Olivia Carmen Cuíñas Piñón, a homemaker and Lino Piñón Muíños, a merchant.

[2] She studied at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro before working as a journalist for the newspaper O Globo and the magazine Cadernos Brasileiros.

[page needed] In 1984, she had, perhaps her greatest success, with A República dos Sonhos, (The Republic of Dreams).

She also was the President of Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters) from 1996 to 1997, and occupied the José Bonifácio Chair of Iberoamerican Affairs of the University of São Paulo in 2015.