Hilda Hilst, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (died 2004)

Hilda Hilst

Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright

Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. 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…