Lucila Nogueira

Lucila Nogueira Rodrigues (March 30, 1950 – December 25, 2016) was a Brazilian poet, essayist, short story writer, educator, and federal prosecutor. Published in 1978, ''Almenara'' won the Manuel Bandeira Poetry Prize in Pernambuco. It was the first of the 25 poetry books she was to publish, many of which were translated. Nogueira also published many books of literary criticism and short stories. In 2006, Nogueira was the first woman to represent Brazil at the International Poetry Festival of Medellín. In addition to being a celebrated author, Nogueira was a federal prosecutor, a professor of literature at the Federal University of Pernambuco, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philology, one of the directors of the Brazilian Union of Writers, and, since 1992, a member of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters and Literature - Academia Pernambucana de Letras. Provided by Wikipedia