Wilson Martins

Wilson Martins (b. March 3, 1921, São Paulo) is a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil.

He graduated from the Universidade Federal do Paraná and taught at New York University from 1965 to 1991. In 2002, the Brazilian Academy of Letters awarded him the Prêmio Machado de Assis for his lifetime's work.

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 0814702937 reviewed at [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2168(197202)52%3A1%3C176%3ATMIACS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9]
* "História da Inteligência Brasileira" - 7 volumes
* "A Crítica Literária no Brasil" - 2 volumes

Further reading

* Sanches Neto, M. (1997). "Wilson Martins". Editora UFPR. ISBN 8573350148 - in Portuguese
* (2001). "Mestre da crítica: edição comemorativa dos 80 anos do crítico literario Wilson Martins, Professor Emérito da Universidade de Nova Iorque." Imprensa Oficial do Paraná. ISBN 8574750328 - in Portuguese

External links

* [http://www.ihgb.org.br/dicbio.php?id=00016 Bio details, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro] - in Portuguese
* [http://www.revista.agulha.nom.br/wilson01bib.html Bio details, Revista de Cultura] - in Portuguese