Santa Fé (Argentina), 1925 By Afrânio Mendes Catani An important figure in the new Latin American cinema, he was a founder of film schools, including the pioneering one at the Universidad del Litoral in Santa Fé, his hometown, and the one in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. A documentary…
Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1914 - 1999 By Flávio Aguiar Author of novels, short stories, and screenplays, he was the writer who had the closest relationship with Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he co-authored several volumes of detective stories featuring the character Isidro Parodi, published under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq…
Charleroi (Belgium), 1936 By Afrânio Mendes Catani Film critic, essayist, professor, screenwriter, writer, and director. From a French family, he lived in Paris until 1948. He arrived in Brazil in 1949, settling in São Paulo. He attended the Brazilian Cinematheque and, in the 1950s, began writing for the "Suplemento Literário"…
Tacuarembó, 1920 - Montevideo (Uruguay), 2009 By Flávio Aguiar In 1956, he sparked controversy with Poemas de la oficina for contrasting the academic lyricism of his contemporaries, and in 1959, with the short stories collected in Montevideanos, for presenting a conception of urban prose. Paradigmatic, these volumes announce, as the…
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1955 By Luiz Felipe Alves de Miranda A member of a family linked to cinema: his parents, Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto, are producers, and his brother Fábio is a director. He adapted several literary works, starting with the small production Tati, a garota (1973), based…
Recife (Brazil), 1908 - Paris (France), 1973 By Rodrigo Nobile The geographer Josué Apolônio de Castro had a humble childhood in Recife, alongside the populations living in the mangroves along the banks of the Capibaribe River—of which they survived. In 1925, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he graduated…
São Paulo (Brazil), 1968 By Fernanda Gdynia Morotti A chef, author of culinary books, and owner of D.O.M in São Paulo, considered one of the best restaurants in the world, Alex Atala (born Milad Alexandre Mack Atala) has become a restless entrepreneur in the culinary field. He is a founding…
Araripe, 1916 - Recife (Brazil), 2005 By Ivana Jinkings Elected three times as governor of the state of Pernambuco (1962-1964, 1986-1990, and 1994-1998), Miguel Arraes de Alencar was one of the leading figures of leftist nationalism before the 1964 coup. His first term as governor was marked by the extension…
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