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Wilson Martins

ウィルソン・マルチンス

Wilson Martins

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1921-03-03 (São Paulo)
Died
2010-01-30 (Curitiba) age 88
Nationality
Brazilian
Languages
Portuguese, English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
São Paulo, Brazil → Curitiba, Brazil → New York, United States

Career

Occupations
literary critic, cultural historian, educator, writer
Active Years
1945-2010
Affiliations
New York University, Academia Brasileira de Letras

Education

Universidade Federal do Paraná
Country: Brazil

Awards

Prêmio Machado de Assis
2002
Work: lifetime's work
Organization: Academia Brasileira de Letras
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

O Modernismo

1965 Literary Criticism

A critical survey of Brazilian writing in the twentieth century.

Modernism
Translations
  • tr. Jack Tomlins (1971), The modernist idea

Legacy

Prominent Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who contributed regularly to Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo, taught at New York University from 1965 to 1991, and received the Prêmio Machado de Assis in 2002 for lifetime achievement.