Adalgisa Nery

Adalgisa Nery (October 29, 1905 – June 7, 1980) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician.

Biography She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant. In 1922 she married Ismael Nery (1900–1934), a painter and poet who introduced Adalgisa to a circle of Brazilian artists and intellectuals that included Manuel Bandeira, Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes. The Nerys lived in Europe from 1927 to 1929, where they met the artist Marc Chagall and the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Ismael died of tuberculosis in 1934, leaving Adalgisa with two sons.

Nery spent the last years of her life in increasing depression and seclusion. She died in a retirement home in Rio de Janeiro.

Various short stories and poems by Nery have been translated into English, French, German and Italian.

Works Poemas 1937 A mulher ausente (poems) 1940 Og (short stories) 1943 Ar do deserto (poems) 1943 Cantas de angústia (poems) 1948 As fronteiras da quarta dimensão (poems) 1952 A imaginária (novel) 1959 Mundos oscilantes (poems) 1962 Retrato sem retoque (collection of newspaper columns) 1966 22 menos 1 (short stories) 1972 Neblina (novel) 1972 Erosão (poems) 1973