Helena Parente Cunha

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

Contents

• Helena parente cunha reads in portuguese
• Helena parente cunha com a palavra o escritor
• Selected works
• References

She was born in Salvador, Bahia 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.

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

Selected works

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

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)