Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna (27 March 1937 â 4 March 2025) was a Brazilian poet, essayist and academic.
Sant'Anna was a professor of Brazilian literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper. In 1971 he married Marina Colasanti, a Brazilian journalist and writer. In 1984, he began writing for Jornal do Brasil.
Sant'Anna died at his home in Rio de Janeiro, on 4 March 2025, at the age of 87.