Zélia Gattai

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Zélia Gattai (born July 2, 1916 in São Paulo , † May 17, 2008 in Salvador da Bahia ) was a Brazilian writer.

Life

Zélia Gattai, daughter of the Italian anarchist Ernesto Gattai , was an active communist. She learned the profession of photographer and studied literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. Through friendships with the writers Mário de Andrade and Rubem Braga , she met Jorge Amado , one of the most important Latin American authors of the 20th century, whom she married in 1945. You lived in Salvador da Bahia since 1955.

Gattai published 13 works; the best known was the autobiographical novel Anarchists, Thank God . In 2001 she became the fifth woman to be accepted into the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature, where she held chair number 23, succeeding her husband, who died in 2001.

Gattai died on May 17, 2008 after several weeks in hospital as a result of an intestinal operation.

Works

  • Anarquistas graças a Deus , 1979, in German: Anarchisten, Gott sei Dank , Kiepenheuer 1994, ISBN 3-378-00554-8
  • To chapéu para viagem , 1982
  • Senhora dona do baile , 1984
  • Reportagem incompleta , 1987
  • Jardim de inverno , 1988
  • Pipistrelo das mil cores , 1989
  • O segredo da rua 18 , 1991
  • Chão de meninos , 1992
  • Crônica de uma namorada , 1995
  • A casa do Rio Vermelho , 1999
  • Cittá di Roma , 2000
  • Jonas ea sereia , 2000
  • Códigos de família , 2001
  • Jorge Amado um baiano sensual e romântico , 2002
  • Vacina de Sapo e outras lembranças , 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Escritora zélia gattai morre aos 91 em Salvador. In: Folha de S. Paulo of May 17, 2008. (With additional web links; accessed on August 13, 2014; Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Gattai, Zélia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian author
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2008
Place of death Salvador da Bahia