Hilda Hilst

Hilda Hilst (Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst, April 21, 1930—February 4th, 2004) was a Brazilian writer.

She studied Law at the University of São Paulo (USP). There, she met her lifelong friend, the Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles. In 1966, she moved into a house at the contryside, near Campinas, where she lived secluded for the rest of her life.

Hilda Hilst and Lygia Fagundes Telles in the 1950’s

Awards

Premio da Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte (APCA) for Ficções (1977)
Premio Jabuti for Cantares de Perda e Predileção (1984)
Premio Jabuti for Rútilo Nada (1993)

Books

In English

The Obscene Madame D., tr. Nathanaël and Rachel Gontijo Araujo (2012)
Letters from a Seducer, tr. John Keene (2014)
With My Dog Eyes, tr. Adam Morris (2014)
Fluxo-floema, tr. Alexandra Joy Forman (2018)

In Portuguese

Poetry

Presságio, 1950
Balada de Alzira, 1951
Balada do festival, 1955
Roteiro do Silêncio, 1959
Trovas de muito amor para um amado senhor, 1961
Ode Fragmentária, 1961
Sete cantos do poeta para o anjo, 1962
Poesia (1959/1967), 1967
Amado Hilst, 1969
Júbilo, memória, noviciado da paixão, 1974
- This mournful moon, this unease (poem, tr. Beatriz Bastos)
- When Beatrice and Cayanna ask you, Dionysus (poem, tr. Beatriz Bastos)
- It is as it should be, Dionysus: do not come (poem, tr. Beatriz Bastos)
- Send me word, if you can (poem, tr. Beatriz Bastos)
- I smile when I wonder (poem, tr. Beatriz Bastos)
Poesia (1959/1979), 1980
Da Morte. Odes mínimas, 1980
Cantares de perda e predileção, 1980
Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos, 1984
Sobre a tua grande face, 1986
Alcoólicas, 1990
Amavisse, 1989
Bufólicas, 1992
Do Desejo, 1992
- Because there is desire within me, everything glimmers (poem, tr. Lavinia Saad)
- Do not look for me there (poem, tr. Lavinia Saad)
- If I seem to you nocturnal and imperfect (poem, tr. Lavinia Saad)
Cantares do Sem Nome e de Partidas, 1995
Do Amor, 1999