Orides Fontela

Orides Fontela
Born
Orides de Lourdes Teixeira Fontela

(1940-04-24)April 24, 1940
São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil
DiedNovember 2, 1998(1998-11-02) (aged 58)
Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo
OccupationPoet
AwardsPrêmio Jabuti (1983)
Prêmio APCA (1996)
Order of Cultural Merit (2007)

Orides de Lourdes Teixeira Fontela (April 24, 1940 — November 2, 1998) was a Brazilian poet, winner of the Prêmio Jabuti and São Paulo Art Critics Association awards.

Life

Fontela was born in São João da Boa Vista, in 1940. She published poems in her hometown newspaper O Município, and in O Estado de S. Paulo's Suplemento Literário. She graduated in philosophy at the University of São Paulo.[1][2]

Fontela was awarded the Jabuti Prize for Poetry, in 1983, for her book Alba; and the São Paulo Art Critics Association award, for the book Teia, in 1996.[3][4] In 2007 the Brazilian Ministry of Culture honored her posthumously with the Order of Cultural Merit;[3] her cousin Maria Helena Teixeira de Oliveira received the award.[1]

Works

  • Transposição (1969)[3]
  • Helianto (1973)[3]
  • Alba (1983)[3]
  • Rosácea (1986)[3]
  • Trevo (1988)[3]
  • Teia (1996)[3]
  • Poesia Reunida (2006)[3]
  • Poesia completa (2015)[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Orides Fontela, Bio-bibliografia". Jornal de Poesia. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
  2. ^ Lavelle, Patrícia (March 3, 2020). ""O que o tempo transmite e subverte": Heranças de Orides Fontela" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Boehm, Camila (February 10, 2026). "Flip anuncia Orides Fontela como autora homenageada de 2026". Agência Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved February 12, 2026.
  4. ^ Sobota, Guilherme (February 9, 2026). "Orides Fontela será a homenageada da Flip 2026". PublishNews (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved February 12, 2026.
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