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Leila Míccolis

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Leila Míccolis (born 1947) is a Brazilian poet, essayist, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and editor.[1]

Life

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Leila Míccolis was born in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro's Tijuca neighborhood.[2] She was an only child.[3] Míccolis graduated with a law degree in 1969 from the old Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law.[4] She later received a master's in literature and literary theory from the Federal University in 2007, as well as a doctorate in literary theory.[1][4][2]

Míccolis worked as a lawyer until 1977, when she decided to dedicate herself exclusively to literature.[5] She published her first book of poems, Gaveta da Solidão, in 1965.[6] In 1983 she began to write TV scripts, becoming the co-author of such telenovelas as Kananga do Japão (1989) with Wilson Aguiar Filho and Barriga de Aluguel (1990) with Glória Perez.[4]

In 1991 she founded with her fellow poet Urhacy Faustino the literary magazine Blocos, and they created the digital version Blocos Online eight years later.[2] She has written and edited over 30 books of poetry and prose, as well as many TV, theater, and film scripts.[7] She also taught telenovela writing courses at the Federal University beginning in 2005.[7]

While Míccolis has publicly rejected labels on sexuality,[8] saying "I wanted to question the division of women into lesbians and non-lesbians,"[9] her work has included poetry on lesbian themes. Her poem "Teus Seios" was featured in the Grupo Gay da Bahia's first Gay Poetry of Brazil Contest in 1982.[10] She was a vocal activist with the gay rights organization Grupo Auê in Rio in the 1970s and '80s, coordinating a precursor to the Encontro Brasileiro de Homossexuais (Brazilian Gathering of Homosexuals) in that city.[10] Her poetry also deals with feminist themes and the rejection of traditional social roles and structures: "I am always revolted with the game of appearances and with the hypocrisy of the family relationship or the relationship of two people. And my poetry questions those imposed social roles that are manipulative and responsible for the internalization of submission, of castration, of guilt, and of low female esteem."[11]

Her role as an activist and the Brazilian "patron saint of hippy pack rats," as the Miami Herald once described her, included amassing a library of alternative newspapers, magazines, mimeographs, and posters from the era of Brazil's military dictatorship.[12] She eventually sold the collection to the University of Miami, where it is available for researchers as the Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection.[13]

Míccolis lived in Maricá for many years with Faustino and the writer Mônica Banderas[2][14] and now lives in Cândido Mota,[2] where she continues to produce work and teach virtual writing workshops.[15]

Selected works

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Poetry and prose

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  • Gaveta da solidão (1965)
  • Jacarés e lobisomens: dois ensaios sobre a homossexualidade, with Herbert Daniel (1983)
  • Do poder ao poder (1987)
  • Desfamiliares: poesía completa de Leila Míccolis, 1965-2012
  • "Literatura e palco" (2011)
  • "A leveza de uma amizade sólida" (2017)

Television

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  • Mania de Querer
  • A Rainha da Vida
  • Olho por Olho
  • Kananga do Japão
  • Barriga de Aluguel
  • Mandacaru

References

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  1. ^ a b "Míccolis, Leila, 1947- - Archival Collections". atom.library.miami.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Poesia para mudar o mundo: Leila Míccolis". Poesia para mudar o mundo. 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  3. ^ "Leila Míccolis - Ensaio crítico sobre a obra da autora, Kátia da Costa Bezerra". www.blocosonline.com.br. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  4. ^ a b c Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "Leila Miccolis". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  5. ^ Bezerra, Kátia da Costa (2000). "A poesia de Leila Míccolis: Transpondo categorias". Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. 26 (52): 257–268. doi:10.2307/4531132. ISSN 0252-8843. JSTOR 4531132.
  6. ^ Míccolis, Leila (1965). Gaveta da solidão (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Scab Editora. OCLC 1037559955.
  7. ^ a b "Leila Míccolis - escritora - Curso básico on line de roteiro de novela de televisão - teoria e prática". www.blocosonline.com.br. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  8. ^ Meireles da Silva, Alexander; Barbosa da Silva, Veridiana Mazon (December 2011). "Perdidos dentro da noite: literatura e homoerotismo em João do Rio". E-Scrita. 2 (6).
  9. ^ DE ALMEIDA MENEZES, DANIELLE (2010). DISCURSOS SOBRE LITERATURAS DE LÍNGUA INGLESA: PERCEPÇÕES E PRÁTICAS PEDAGÓGICAS DE PROFESSORES UNIVERSITÁRIOS (Thesis). Faculdades Catolicas. doi:10.17771/pucrio.acad.16092.
  10. ^ a b "Poeta Leila Miccolis, lésbica". 2015-09-23. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  11. ^ "Entrevista com Leila Miccolis" (PDF). February 20, 2008.
  12. ^ "MiamiHerald.com | 02/27/2006 | Brazil's history now an open book at UM". 2006-03-29. Archived from the original on 2006-03-29. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  13. ^ "Leila Miccolis Brazilian Alternative Press collection - Archival Collections". atom.library.miami.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  14. ^ "Artes - Urhacy Faustino". Post Blog (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  15. ^ "Site oficial da escritora Leila Míccolis". www.blocosonline.com.br. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
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