Helena Parente Cunha

Helena Parente Cunha (born 1929) is a Brazilian educator and writer.[1]

She was born in Salvador, Bahia[2] and received a PhD in Italian literature and literary theory in 1976. Cunha taught literary theory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; at one time, she was the university's Dean of Humanities.[1]

Her 1960 poetry collection Corpo do gozo won the poetry competition of the Secretariat of Education and Culture of Guanabara.[3]

Selected works[1]

• Corpo no cerco (Surrounded body), poetry (1978)
• Maramar (Sea love), poetry (1980)
• Os Provisorios (The tentative), short stories (1980)
• Mulher no espelho (Woman between mirrors), novel (1983), received the Prêmio Cruz e Sousa de Literatura[2]
• As doze cores do vermelho (The twelve colours of red), novel (1988)
• Mulheres Inventadas (Invented Women) (1994)
• A casa e as casas (The house and the houses) (1996)

References

1. Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 74–75. ISBN 0415159806.
2. Fonseca, Aleilton (2013). Traversée D'océans Travessia de oceanos (in Portuguese). p. 146. ISBN 978-2851576996.
3. "Helena Parente Cunha" (in Portuguese). Projeto Releituras.