Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1889 - Geneva (Switzerland), 1986 By Flávio Aguiar One of the foundational pillars of 20th-century Latin American literature, he ensured both the renewal and the re-engagement with Western cultural roots for the continent. He created the Martín Fierro group, a mouthpiece for the literary avant-garde in Argentina…
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…
Guatemala City (Guatemala), 1899 - Madrid (Spain), 1974 By Flávio Aguiar Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, he descended from a wealthy Guatemalan family. He studied law in his country and anthropology in Paris, where he was influenced by the surrealist group and many other Latin American writers…
Ituiutaba (Brazil), 1939 By Afrânio Mendes Catani A Brazilian filmmaker and activist associated with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), he enrolled in the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP) and became involved with the National Union of Students (UNE). As a student, he made short films and…
Itabuna, 1912 - Salvador (Brazil), 2001 By Flávio Aguiar Throughout this period of itinerant exile from 1937 to 1952, Amado focused on political themes, evident in ABC de C astro Alves (1941), O cavaleiro da esperança (The Knight of Hope, 1942), a biography of Luiz Carlos Prestes written during his…
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