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Lygia Fagundes Telles, Popular Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 98
One of her country’s first writers to address female sexuality from a woman’s perspective, she produced four novels and dozens of short stories that could be read as political allegories.
April 4, 2022
Lygia Fagundes Telles, one of Brazil’s most popular writers, whose stories of women trapped in unsatisfying relationships could also be read as allegories of her country’s political situation, died on Sunday at her home in São Paulo. She was 98.