Hilda Hilst
Known For: Writing
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: April 21, 1930
Day of Death: February 4, 2004 (74 years old)
Place of Birth: Brazil
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.
