Cartola
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06/12/2022
Frugoni, Emilio
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31/10/2022
Alonso, Alicia
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22/09/2022
(Português) Baca, Suzana
Lima (Peru), 1944 By Fernanda Gdynia Morotti Susana Esther Baca de la Colina is an Afro-Peruvian historian, musician, educator, singer, and composer. Born in Chorrillos, a small fishing village in the district of Lima, she grew up immersed in music and the arts related to Afro-Peruvian roots. She served as…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Babenco, Hector
Mar del Plata (Argentina), 1946 - São Paulo (Brazil), 2016 By Afrânio Mendes Catani Filmmaker Héctor Eduardo Babenco lived in Brazil and Europe during his youth. In the 1960s, he worked on the production of around forty films in Spain. After directing institutional short films in Brazil, he made his…
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22/01/2022
Carpentier, Alejo
Havana (Cuba), 1904 - Paris (France), 1980 By Flávio Aguiar The literary success of his works was echoed in essays that founded concepts for understanding Latin American art. He formulated the theoretical foundations of "Marvellous Realism," which he adopted in many of his texts, where he asserted nationalist, revolutionary, and…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Cardenal, Ernesto
Granada (Nicaragua), 1925 By Flávio Aguiar Ordained as a priest in 1965, Ernesto Cardenal Martínez developed his religious career alongside his literary and political endeavors, which gave his poetic production a blend of prophetic tone, biblical forms full of lyricism, and commitment to the Sandinista Revolution. In 1952, he founded…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Cantinflas
Mexico City (Mexico), 1911 - 1993 Afrânio Mendes Catani Mario Moreno Reyes is an unknown name. However, his stage name, Cantinflas, gave him international recognition as the most popular Mexican comedian. His long film career, which began in 1937, allowed him to work exclusively with a director (Miguel M. Delgado),…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Candido, Antonio
Rio de Janeiro, 1918 - São Paulo (Brazil), 2017 By Flávio Aguiar Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza graduated in social sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he worked until 1958. He engaged in literary criticism since his formative…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Callado, Antonio
Niterói, 1917 - Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 1997 By Flávio Aguiar He began his journalism career at the age of seventeen, an activity that yielded notable reports, including those collected in the volume Vietnã do Norte (1977). Concerned with profound social distortions, he declared in the 1960s that "an intellectual…
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22/01/2022
