Lya Fett Luft (15 September 1938 – 30 December 2021) was a Brazilian writer and a prolific translator, working mostly in the English-Portuguese and the German-Portuguese language combinations.

Life and career

Lya Fett was born on 15 September 1938 in

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(

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) which was largely settled by

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immigrants, beginning in the first half of the 19th century. A notable percentage of the population there speak both German and Portuguese, including Fett's family. She later moved to

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, where she lived until her death. Though raised

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, at the age of 19 Luft converted to

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. She was a college professor of

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and literature, and wrote an opinion column for '' Veja'' magazine. Luft's literary work has been translated into other European languages, including German, English and Italian.

Death

Lya Luft suffered a heart attack in 2019. She died at her home in Porto Alegre two years later at age 83, on 30 December 2021, from

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Bibliography

Works she produced in Portuguese: * ''Canções de Limiar'', 1964 * ''Flauta Doce'', 1972 * ''Matéria do Cotidiano'', 1978 * ''As Parceiras'', 1980 * ''A Asa Esquerda do Anjo'', 1981 * ''Reunião de Família'', 1982 * ''O Quarto Fechado'', 1984 * ''Mulher no Palco'', 1984 * ''Exílio'', 1987 * ''O Lado Fatal'', 1989 * ''O Rio do Meio'', 1996 * ''Secreta Mirada'', 1997 * ''O Ponto Cego'', 1999 * ''Histórias do Tempo'', 2000 * ''Mar de dentro'', 2000 * ''Perdas e Ganhos'', 2003 * ''Histórias de Bruxa Boa'', 2004 * ''Pensar é Transgredir'', 2004 * ''Para não Dizer Adeus'', 2005 * ''O tigre na sombra'', 2014 * ''Coisas humanas'', 2020

References

External links

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Gezeiten des Glücks: Ein erfülltes Leben
Lya Luft. Site in German. Accessed on November 4, 2005.
L’ALA SINISTRA DELL’ANGELO
a novel by Lya Luft. This site in Italian, was accessed on December 23, 2005.

Site in Portuguese, accessed on July 2, 2006. 1938 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Brazilian novelists 20th-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian novelists 21st-century Brazilian women writers People from Santa Cruz do Sul Brazilian people of German descent Translators to Portuguese Brazilian women novelists Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni Brazilian Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism Deaths from melanoma Deaths from cancer in Rio Grande do Sul {{Brazil-writer-stub