Nélida Piñon

Biography

Nélida Cuiñas Piñon was born in May 3, 1934 in the middle class Vila Isabel area of Rio de Janeiro to Olivia Carmen Cuíñas Piñón, a homemaker and Lino Piñón Muíños, a merchant. Her mother was the child of Galician immigrants, her father a first generation Galician immigrant.

She studied at Santo Amaro School as a kid (which had its library renamed after her in 2011), a catholic school runned by nuns, and then she studied at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio) before working as a journalist for the newspaper O Globo and the magazine Cadernos Brasileiros. She stated that this religious background was decisive in her human for...