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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