Prêmio Jabuti
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Edition 0 (1999) Winner
Gerardo Mello Mourão
ジェラルド・メロ・モウラン
Gerardo Mello Mourão
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1917-01-08 （Brazil）
- Died
- 2007-03-09 （Brazil） age 90
- Nationality
- Brazilian
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Residence History
- Rio de Janeiro
Career
- Occupations
- poet, fictionist, politician, journalist, translator, essayist, biographer
- Active Years
- 1938-2007
- Affiliations
- Brazilian Integralist Action
- Memberships
- Integralist Movement
- Influenced
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ezra Pound
- Nominations
- Nobel Prize in Literature nomination (by The State University of New York)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Jabuti Prize | Invenção do Mar | — | Brazilian Book Chamber | 受賞 |
| 1972 | Prêmio Mário de Andrade | Peripécia de Gerardo | — | — | 受賞 |
Jabuti Prize
1999
Work:
Invenção do Mar
Organization:
Brazilian Book Chamber
Result:
受賞
Prêmio Mário de Andrade
1972
Work:
Peripécia de Gerardo
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Invenção do Mar
1997 poetryEpic poem inventing the sea.
seacreation
O País dos Mourões
1963 poetryPoem about the country of the Moors.
homelandepic
Os Peãs
1982 poetry trilogyTrilogy praised by Ezra Pound.
American epic
Bibliography
- Poesia do homem só
- Mustafá Kemel
- Do Destino do Espírito
- Argentina
- Cabo das Tormentas
- Três Pavanas
- O País dos Mourões
- Dossiê da destruição
- Frei e Chile num continente ocupado
- Peripécia de Gerardo
- Astro de Apolo
- O Canto de Amor e Morte do Porta-estandarte Cristóvão Rilke [translation]
- Pierro della Francesca ou as Vizinhas Chilenas: Contos
- Os Peãs
- A invenção do saber
- Valete de Espadas
- O Poema, de Parmênides [translation]
- Suzana-3 - Elegia e inventário
- Invenção do Mar: Carmen sæculare
- Cânon & fuga
- Um Senador de Pernambuco: Breve Memória de Antônio de Barros Carvalho
- O Bêbado de Deus
- Os Olhos do Gato & O Retoque Inacabado
- O sagrado e o profano
- Algumas Partituras
- O Nome de Deus [posthumous]
Legacy
Considered a key figure in both the national and all Lusophone literature.
Quotes
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In all my work, what I tried to do was write the epic of America. I don't think I could. Who achieved it was the poet of The Country of the Moors.
Source: On Os Peãs (Ezra Pound)
Trivia
- Joined the Brazilian Integralist Action in the late 1930s.
- Convicted of spying for Nazi Germany in 1942 and sentenced to life imprisonment, later reduced to 30 years; released in 1948.
- Defined by Carlos Drummond de Andrade as 'the great poet of Brazil'.