Since 1955, Nélida Piñon has dedicated herself full-time to creative writing, publishing more than six novels and three collections of short stories. Piñon's writing has been translated into Spanish, French, English, and Polish. Her literary contributions are considered to be the avant-garde of contemporary Brazilian fiction.

In conjunction with: School of Humanities; Department of English; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Office of Women's Studies; Program in Comparative Literature; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; George A. Miller Committee