Before starting college, Hilst's mother told her of her father's condition, and Hilst went to visit him for the first time in a mental ins*ution. Hilst attended elementary and high school at Collegia Santa Marcelina in São Paulo before enrolling in a bachelor's degree program at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Hilst grew up in Jaú, a town in the state of São Paulo, with her mother and half brother from her mother's previous marriage. Her mother was also ins*utionalized at the end of her life for dementia. Her parents separated in 1932 while she was still an infant, and it was only three years later when her father received the diagnosis of Schizophrenia and thereafter spent much of his life in mental ins*utions. Her parents conditions suffering from mental health and oppressive conservative social standards greatly influenced Hilst's writing. Her mother came from a conservative Portuguese immigrant family. He struggled with Schizophrenia throughout his life. Her father owned a coffee plantation and also worked as a journalist, poet, and essayist. Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst was the only daughter of Apolônio de Almeida Prado Hilst and Bedecilda Vaz Cardoso. Hilst greatly revered the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and the influence of their styles-like stream of consciousness and fractured reality-is evident in her own work.
Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. She is lauded as one of the most important Portuguese-language authors of the twentieth century. Hilda Hilst (Ap– February 4, 2004) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright.
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