RACHEL GUTIERREZ Translated
by John D. Godinho
Rachel is from Sant’Ana do Livramento, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. She is an editorial consultant to Editora Rocco, a publishing house in Rio de Janeiro. She is also a pianist and a former teacher in the Música Pró-Arte Seminaries. She holds a master’s degree in philosophy and is now working on her thesis on the aesthetics of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s poetry. In the 1980s, she, together with a group of female friends, founded a group called Mulherando and, as a representative of the Feminist Movement, she was the first woman to run for office on a major political party ticket (Lieutenant-Governor, in the 1986 gubernatorial race in the State of Rio de Janeiro.) In
1984, she and Ester Schwartz founded the Associação
dos Leitores e Amigos de Clarice Lispector (The Association of Readers and
Friends of Clarice Lispector.) In addition to holding a master’s degree in philosophy, she is a translator and writer, having published a collection of poems entitled Comigos de Mim (The With-me’s of Myself) in 1955. Her play Palavra de Mulher (A Woman’s Word) was staged in 2001. For
Vidas Lusófonas, she is the author of the following biography:
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