Hilda Hilst
Birth date
April 21, 1930
Death date
February 4, 2004
Place of birth
Brazil
Profession
Writing
Age
73 years
Biography
Hilda Hilst 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.
