Lemos, Gilvan: from fiction to reality in the lands of the Una River

A member of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters, Gilvan Lemos was a very important writer for Brazilian Literature, and his texts deserve to be on the shelves of all readers who love powerful prose full of originality. A novelist who was silent in spoken words, but thunderous in his writing, he left a legacy that will live on for endless generations. Due to his shyness, he was not among the influential literary circles of his time; he preferred to be alone in his flat in Recife (where he was found dead in August 2015), but he nevertheless had many admirers throughout Brazil. He recognised his work as very good; he said that his books didn't even seem to be his own, because they were so good, but he didn't have the courage to go looking for publishers to publish them. Encouraged by friends, he gradually sent in his writings and they were immediately accepted and published. He never thought he would be a writer, but he was, and with mastery, perhaps because he wrote what he liked and what he owned, he wrote only for himself. But whether he wanted to or not, he managed to captivate many readers around the world and eternalised his literature.