Manoel de Barros

Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros (born December 19, 1916, Cuiabá) is a Brazilian poet. He has won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize"),^[1] the most important literary award in Brazil. Today he is renowned by his critics as one of the great names of contemporary Brazilian poetry,^[2] and by many authors he has been considered the greatest living poet from Brazil.^[3] The poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade recognized Manoel de Barros as the biggest poet of Brazil.^[4]

In the year 1998 the poet was rewarded with the "National prize of Literature of the Ministry of the Culture from Brazil", for the set of the work.

Bibliography

Portuguese

• 1937—Poemas concebidos sem pecado
• 1942—Face imóvel
• 1956—Poesias
• 1960—Compêndio para uso dos pássaros
• 1966—Gramática expositiva do chão
• 1974—Matéria de poesia
• 1982—Arranjos para assobio
• 1985—Livro de pré-coisas
• 1989—O guardador das águas - Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura (Tortoise Prize) 1989.
• 1990—Poesia quase toda
• 1991—Concerto a céu aberto para solos de aves
• 1993—O livro das ignorãças - Prize Alfonso Guimarães of the National Library from Brazil.
• 1996—Livro sobre nada - Prize Nestlé of Brazilian Literature 1997, Category: Poetry.
• 1998—Retrato do artista quando coisa
• 1999—Exercícios de ser criança
• 2000—Ensaios fotográficos
• 2001—O fazedor de amanhecer [Children's literature] - Prêmio Jabuti (Tortoise Prize) de Literatura 2002.
• 2001—Poeminhas pescados numa fala de João
• 2001—Tratado geral das grandezas do ínfimo
• 2003—Memórias inventadas (A infância)
• 2003—Cantigas para um passarinho à toa
• 2004—Poemas rupestres - Prize Nestlé of Brazilian Literature 2006.
• 2005—Memórias inventadas II (A segunda infância)
• 2007—Memórias inventadas III (A terceira infância)

Translated editions

German

• 1996—Das Buch der Unwissenheiten

French

• 2003—La Parole sans Limites. Une Didactique de lInvention

Spanish

• 2002 - Todo lo que no invento es falso
• 2005 - Riba del dessemblat

English

• 2010 - Birds for a Demolition (translated by Idra Novey, Carnegie Mellon University Press)

Notes

1. ^ Francesco Neves. Jabuti Laureate. March 2002.
2. ^ Couto, José Geraldo. Beyond the Pantanal. Translated by Jamie Sundquist. September 1999.
3. ^ Lima, José Ricardo. Manoel de Barros, o maior poeta vivo da Literatura brasileira. 2007..
4. ^ Colombo, Patrícia. O poeta do povo. Rolling Stone Brasil. On 23rd of January of 2010.

External links

• [1]
• Eduquenet. Textos, Artigos e Análises. O Livro das Ignorãças - Manoel de Barros.

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