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Wilson Martins (literary critic)
Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wilson Martins (March 3, 1921 in São Paulo – January 30, 2010)[1] was a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo.
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He graduated from the Universidade Federal do Paraná and taught at New York University from 1965 to 1991. In 2002, the Academia Brasileira de Letras awarded him the Prêmio Machado de Assis for his lifetime's work.
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Works
His major works include:
- O Modernismo (1965, 5ª ed. 1977) - tr. Jack Tomlins (1971), The modernist idea: a critical survey of Brazilian writing in the twentieth century, New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-0293-7 reviewed at
- História da Inteligência Brasileira - 7 volumes
- A Crítica Literária no Brasil - 2 volumes
External links
- Bio details, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro - in Portuguese
- Bio details, Revista de Cultura - in Portuguese
References
Further reading
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