Lucila Nogueira

Lucila Nogueira was a Brazilian poet and writer, one of the most prominent and influential authors of the 20th century in Brazil. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1950, and studied law at the Federal University of Pernambuco, where she graduated in 1972. She published her first poetry book, Almenara, in 1978, which won the Manuel Bandeira Poetry Prize in Pernambuco. She published 25 poetry books, many of which were translated into other languages. She also wrote short stories, essays, and literary criticism. She was a professor of literature at the Federal University of Pernambuco, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philology, and one of the directors of the Brazilian Union of Writers. She was also a federal prosecutor and a promoter of social justice. She died in 2016, at the age of 66, after suffering a respiratory infection.