Zélia Gattai

Zélia Gattai ( born July 2, 1916 in São Paulo, † 17 May, 2008 Salvador Bahia) was a Brazilian writer.

Life

Zélia Gattai, daughter of Italian anarchist Ernesto Gattai, was an active communist. She learned the profession of a photographer and studied literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. Through friendships with the writers Mário de Andrade and Rubem Braga she met Jorge Amado, one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century, whom she married in 1945. They lived since 1955 in Salvador da Bahia.

Gattai published 13 works; the most famous was the autobiographical novel " anarchists, thank God ." In 2001 she was admitted as the fifth woman ever in the Academia Brasileira de Letras, the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Gattai died on 17 May 2008, after several weeks of hospitalization from the effects of colon surgery.

Works

• Anarquistas Graces a Deus, 1979, in German: anarchists, thank God, Kiepenheuer 1994, ISBN 3378005548
• To chapéu para viagem, 1982
• Senhora Dona do baile 1984
• Reportagem incompleta, 1987
• Jardim de inverno 1988
• Pipistrelo the mil cores, 1989
• O segredo da rua 18, 1991
• Chão de meninos, 1992
• Crônica de uma namorada, 1995
• A casa do Rio Vermelho, 1999
• Città di Roma, 2000
• Jonas e a sereia, 2000
• Códigos de família, 2001
• Jorge Amado to baiano sensual e romântico, 2002
• Vacina de Sapo e outras Lembranças, 2005