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Host: Nélida Piñon
Type: Book event / reading and book signing event
Network: Global
Date:Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Time:7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Americas Society
Street:680 Park Avenue
City/Town: New York, NY

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I had a great evening last night. I went to the Brazilian library in New York City, for an event to honor Nelida Pinon.

It was a pleasure to see her once again, and she gave a real nice lecture about her latest book. She is an outstanding lady, very smart, and I enjoy having a conversation with her.

Right now she represents the best hope that Brazil has to be able to win a Nobel Prize.

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Host: Nélida Piñon
Type: Book event / reading and book signing event
Network: Global
Date:Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Time:7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Americas Society
Street:680 Park Avenue
City/Town: New York, NY


Here is some information about the Americas Society were Nelida Pinon also had another book event / reading and book signing event in New York City.

The goal of the Americas Society is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social and economic issues confronting Latin America, ...

Americas Society (AS) is the premier forum dedicated to education, debate, and dialogue in the Americas. Its mission is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social, and economic issues confronting Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, and to increase public awareness and appreciation of the diverse cultural heritage of the Americas and the importance of the inter-American relationship.

Council of the Americas (COA) is the premier international business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the Western Hemisphere. The Council's membership consists of leading international companies representing a broad spectrum of sectors, including banking and finance, consulting services, consumer products, energy and mining, manufacturing, media, technology, and transportation.

http://www.as-coa.org/

http://www.as-coa.org/page.php?k=offices

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Last night when Nelida Pinon gave a lecture about her latest book “Voices of the Desert” at the Brazilian Library in New York City (Part of the Brazilian Endowment for the Arts – BEA) – the president of that organization Mr. Domicio Coutinho on his opening remarks he said that today Nelida Pinon is the best bet that Brazil has for winning a Literature Nobel Prize.

Domicio Coutinho
President of BEA
http://www.brasilianendowment.org/


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Nélida Piñon

Nélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1936 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (The Guidebook of Gabriel Arcanjo), written in 1961 which concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel. In the 1970s she became noted for erotic novels A casa de paixão (The House of Passion) and A força do destino (The Force of Destiny), written in 1977.

In 1984 she perhaps had her greatest success with A Republica dos Sonhos, English translation The Republic of Dreams. The work involves generations of a family from Galicia who emigrated to Brazil. This relates to her own family's experience.

She is a former President of Academia Brasileira de Letras and on a personal note she is said to be fond of American television.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nélida_Piñon


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Nélida Piñon was born 1936 in Rio de Janeiro as the child of Spanish immigrants. Here she studied Journalism and worked after that for a long time for the periodicals 'O Globo' and 'Cadernos Brasileiros'.

The author, who now is one of the most important Brasilian writers, became widely known in the early sixties through her novels and short stories which were influenced by Existentialism. Her first novel, 'Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo' (Engl: The Guidebook of Gabriel Arcanjo), written in 1961, is a dialogue between the protagonist and her guardian angel concerning the Christian doctrine and its various interpretations.

Under the pressure of dictatorship there developed in Brazil at the beginning of the sixties a new literature, the apparent subjective tendency of which was the result of strict censorship. Nélida Piñon had a decisive influence on this literature through her erotic novels 'A casa de pãixao' (Engl: The House of Passion), written in 1972 and 'A força do destino' (Engl: The Force of Destiny), written in 1977.

Awards at this time made her internationally famous. In 1970 she received the Walmap-Prize for her historical novel 'Fundador' (Engl: Founders), and in 1973 the Association of Arts Critics in San Paulo awarded her the Mario de Andrade-Prize for 'A casa de paixão'.

The author celebrated her greatest success up to now with the novel 'A republica dos sonhos' (Engl: The Republic of Dreams), which was published in 1984 and is meanwhile available also in Spanish, French and English. In almost eight-hundred pages Piñon tells here the story of her own family from Galicia. Through four generations she traces the path of Spanish immigrants which they had opened up into the dream repubilic of Brazil.

The story is told from the perspective of the grandfather and his granddaughter whose conversations become a testimony of the collective memory which threatens to be forgotten. This is Piñon’s prime concern: "Countries which fail to preserve their memory and forget their human histories and create their peoples anew will suffer spiritual atrophy and become impoverished." For her contribution to enriching Brazilian literature the author was honoured in 1985 by the Association of Arts Critics and by the Brazilian P.E.N.-Club.

Nélida Piñon’s latest novel 'A doce cançao de Caetana' (Engl: The Sweet Song of Caetana) was published in 1987 and was in the same year awarded the Brazilian Writers’ Union Prize. Set in June 1970, this novel, at times very humourously written, does not only give an affectionately malicious portrait of a Brazilian provincial community, but also constitutes a critical look at the dictatorship of the seventies.

Alongside numerous teaching assignments at various universities in the USA, Nélida Piñon took over in 1996 and 1997 the Presidency of the Brazilian Academy of Arts, of which she is still a member.

© international literature festival berlin

http://www.literaturfestival.c...6_559.html


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Literanista
Monday, August 10, 2009
Nélida Piñon's Voices of the Desert

I was rather taken by the beauty of the cover of Voices of the Desert: A novel and then discovered the book was written by a Latina, Nélida Piñon and translated by Cliff Landers.

http://www.literanista.net/200...esert.html


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Today the Brazilian community in New York City is proud of the extraordinary work that Domicio Coutinho has been doing regarding the “Brazilian Endowment for the Arts – BEA".

On the enclosed article about former President Jose Sarney, in the comments section we have a discussion about the early days of the project development of “The Brazilian Cultural Society” a project that Domicio Coutinho took to the next level with BEA. Former President Jose Sarney, Nelida Pinon and Professor Gregory Rabassa were also part of the extraordinary original group of people who were trying to take off the ground “The Brazilian Cultural Society.”

You find the information by reading the comments by Ricardo C. Amaral following this article:

http://www.brazzil.com/compone...ption.html

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Note: Brazzil magazine became part of the project right from the beginning when the magazine published the following article.

You can read about the “Brazilian Cultural Society” project at:

Brazzil Magazine – September 2001 – “The B-Files” “The Brazilian Cultural Society” - Written by Ricardo C. Amaral

http://www.brazzil.com/compone.../6752.html

Former President Jose Sarney is also a member of The Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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