Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros (December 19, 1916 â November 13, 2014) was a Brazilian poet. He won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize"), the most important literary award in Brazil.
Barros was born in Cuiabá, and is regarded by critics as one of the great names of contemporary Brazilian poetry, and by many authors he has been considered the greatest living poet from Brazil. The poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade recognized Manoel de Barros as the Brazil's greatest poet.
In 1998 the poet was rewarded with the "National prize of Literature of the Ministry of the Culture from Brazil", for the set of the work. He died at age 97, in Campo Grande.
Bibliography
Portuguese
- 1937âÂÂPoemas concebidos sem pecado
- 1942âÂÂFace imóvel
- 1956âÂÂPoesias
- 1960âÂÂCompêndio para uso dos pássaros
- 1966âÂÂGramática expositiva do chão
- 1974âÂÂMatéria de poesia
- 1982âÂÂArranjos para assobio
- 1985âÂÂLivro de pré-coisas
- 1989âÂÂO guardador das águas - Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura (Tortoise Prize) 1990.
- 1990âÂÂPoesia quase toda
- 1991âÂÂConcerto a céu aberto para solos de aves
- 1993âÂÂO livro das ignorãças - Prize Alfonso Guimarães of the National Library from Brazil.
- 1996âÂÂLivro sobre nada - Prize Nestlé of Brazilian Literature 1997, Category: Poetry.
- 1998âÂÂRetrato do artista quando coisa
- 1999âÂÂExercÃÂcios de ser criança
- 2000âÂÂEnsaios fotográficos
- 2001âÂÂO fazedor de amanhecer [Children's literature] - Prêmio Jabuti (Tortoise Prize) de Literatura 2002.
- 2001âÂÂPoeminhas pescados numa fala de João
- 2001âÂÂTratado geral das grandezas do ÃÂnfimo
- 2003âÂÂMemórias inventadas (A infância)
- 2003âÂÂCantigas para um passarinho àtoa
- 2004âÂÂPoemas rupestres - Prize Nestlé of Brazilian Literature 2006.
- 2005âÂÂMemórias inventadas II (A segunda infância)
- 2007âÂÂMemórias inventadas III (A terceira infância)
Translated editions
German
- 1996âÂÂDas Buch der Unwissenheiten
French
- 2003âÂÂLa Parole sans Limites. Une Didactique de lInvention
Spanish
- 2002 - Todo lo que no invento es falso
- 2005 - Riba del dessemblat
English
- 2010 - Birds for a Demolition (translated by Idra Novey, Carnegie Mellon University Press)
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