SAO PAULO, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian writer and literary critic Cleonice Berardinelli, one of the world's leading specialists in Portuguese literature, died Tuesday at the age of 106 from respiratory failure in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Academy of Letters confirmed Wednesday.
Berardinelli was a member of the academy since 2009 as a result of her literary career and academic work, as well as being a critic of Portuguese language works, especially of the Portuguese poet and writer, Fernando Pessoa.
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