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Silviano Santiago

シルヴィアーノ・サンティアーゴ

Silviano Santiago

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1936-09-29 (Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Nationality
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese
Residence History
Formiga (birthplace) → Belo Horizonte → Rio de Janeiro → Albuquerque, New Mexico (teaching) → Various North American cities for teaching/research (e.g., New Jersey, Toronto, Buffalo, Indiana)

Career

Occupations
writer, literary critic, essayist, scholar, translator, university professor
Active Years
1954-
Affiliations
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), Fluminense Federal University (UFF), University of New Mexico (faculty), Rutgers University (faculty), University of Toronto (faculty), SUNY Buffalo (faculty), Indiana University (faculty)
Influenced By
Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, French literary theory
Influenced
Brazilian literary scholars and critics

Education

Federal University of Minas Gerais
Neolatin languages
Degree: 学位取得
Country: Brazil
Studied Neolatin languages; later pursued graduate studies at the University of Paris (details not specified)
University of Paris (Sorbonne)
French literature
Degree: 博士号(Doctorate)
Country: France
Completed doctoral studies specializing in French literature (year/details not specified)

Awards

Ordem do Mérito Cultural
2005
Organization: Brazilian cultural authorities
Result: 受賞
Prêmio Machado de Assis
2013
Organization: Brazilian literary institutions
Result: 受賞
Oceanos Prize
2015
Work: Mil Rosas Roubadas
Category: 最優秀長編小説
Organization: Oceanos (Portuguese-language literary prize)
Result: 受賞
Camões Prize
2022
Organization: Camões Prize organizers
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mil Rosas Roubadas

2014 novel

A novel that weaves family, memory and layers of Brazilian society; it develops a personal story while addressing social and cultural issues.

memoryfamilysocial critique
Translations

Machado

2016 novel

A work engaging with literary history and the figure of Machado, combining research and fictional elements.

literary historyportrait of writersmemory and transmission

Heranças

2008 novel

A novel that reexamines personal and cultural heritage, exploring the relationship between identity and history.

heritageidentityhistory

Stella Manhattan

1985 novel

A noted novel from the 1980s addressing urban and cultural tensions.

urban lifecultural tension

The Space in-between - essays on Latin American culture

2001 essays

An essay collection discussing Latin American culture and its borders/voids; critiques cultural dependence and the effects of coloniality.

cultural criticismdependencedecolonization
Translations
  • Published in English (edited translation/anthology)

Bibliography

  • Os velhos (short story, 1955)
  • 4 poetas (poetry, 1960)
  • Duas faces (short stories, 1961, coauthored)
  • Brasil: prosa e poesia (anthology, 1969)
  • Salto (poems, 1970)
  • O olhar (novel, 1974)
  • Stella Manhattan (novel, 1985)
  • Uma história de família (novel, 1993)
  • De cócoras (novel, 1999)
  • The Space in-between (essays, 2001)
  • O Cosmopolitismo do Pobre (essays, 2004)
  • Heranças (novel, 2008)
  • Mil Rosas Roubadas (novel, 2014)
  • Machado (2016)

Translations by Author

  • Poems (translation of Jacques Prévert)
  • Por que amo Barthes (translation of Alain Robbe-Grillet)

Translations of Works

  • The Space in-between (English edition, essays anthology)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
critical and theoretical proseanalysis influenced by French theoryexperimental, multilayered novelistic expression
Recurring Motifs
memory and familycity and modernitycultural dependence and decolonization

Legacy

Known as a major Brazilian critic and writer, Santiago produced wide-ranging work in poetry, fiction and criticism. Through his teaching and international activity and major literary prizes, he has had a significant impact on Latin American literary studies and criticism.

Trivia

  • Moved from Formiga to Belo Horizonte at age ten.
  • Taught at several universities in North America and Canada from the 1960s onward.
  • Won the Oceanos Prize (Best Novel) in 2015 for Mil Rosas Roubadas (2014).
  • Awarded the Camões Prize in 2022.