Lia Wyler

Lia Wyler (October 6, 1934 – December 11, 2018) was a Brazilian translator.

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Lia graduated with a degree in Literature at PUC-Rio and received her Masters in Communications at Eco-UFRJ, where her thesis was entitled "Translation in Brazil." She was also the author of the first history of translation in Brazil, "Línguas, poetas e bacharéis", ("Languages, Poets, and Scholars"), and she was the president of the National Union of Translators from 1991 to 1993.^{[citation needed]}

Wyler died on December 11, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro.^[1]