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Lya Luft is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, a novelist, a poet

Poet

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, a prolific translator (working mostly in the English-Portuguese and the German-Portuguese language combinations) of German descent

German Brazilian

A German Brazilian is a Brazilian person of ethnic German ancestry or origin...

. She was also a college professor of linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

and literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

. Luft currently writes an opinion column for Veja
Veja (magazine)
Veja is a Brazilian weekly newsmagazine published in São Paulo and distributed throughout the country by the media conglomerate Grupo Abril. It is the leading weekly publication in the country, and one of the most influential outlets of the Brazilian press...

magazine. Since her youth she has been living in Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

.

Luft's hometown, Santa Cruz do Sul is peculiar because it was largely settled by German-speaking

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

immigrants, starting in the first half of the 19th century. The city still has a notable percentage of the population who speaks both German

German language

and Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

. Lya Luft grew up in such a bilingual environment.

Lya Luft's works have been translated into other European languages, like German

German language

, English and Italian, etc.

The English translation of Losses and Gains (Perdas e Ganhos) was published for the first time in the UK by Vermilion in June 2007.

External links

Google Print (BETA). Entries on this page mostly in English. Accessed on November 4, 2005.
Entrevista com Lya F. Luft por Stella Máris Valenzuela. Site in Portuguese. Accessed on November 4, 2005.
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.
Lya Luft: "A cultura alemã me influenciou muito". Site in Portuguese, accessed on July 2, 2006.

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