Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna (27 March 1937 – 4 March 2025) was a Brazilian poet, essayist and academic.
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
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- Name
- Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
- Born
- 27 March 1937
- Birthplace
- Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Died
- 4 March 2025
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Occupation
- journalist · poet · librarian · university teacher · literary scholar · writer
- Education
- Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- Portuguese · English · French
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Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna (27 March 1937 – 4 March 2025) was a Brazilian poet, essayist and academic.
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Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna studied at Federal University of Minas Gerais. The recorded working language is Portuguese, English and French. Employment is recorded with University of California, Los Angeles, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and University of Texas at El Paso. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
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• Name — Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna • Born — 27 March 1937 • Birthplace — Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil • Died — 4 March 2025 • Place of death — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Children — 2
Background
Background
Sant'Anna was a professor of Brazilian literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper. In 1971 he married Marina Colasanti, a Brazilian journalist and writer. In 1984, he began writing for Jornal do Brasil. Sant'Anna died at his home in Rio de Janeiro, on 4 March 2025, at the age of 87.
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Works
• 1962 – O Desemprego da Poesia • 1965 – Canto e Palavra (poem book) • 1980 – Que país é este? • 1986 – A Mulher Madura (book of articles for O Globo)
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Belo Horizonte.
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- 1.Programa Sempre UFMG Ex-alunos. 2013-03-31. 2014-07-23. sim.
- 2.SANT'ANNA, Affonso Romano de. Drummond - o Gauche no Tempo. 85-01-03957-8.
- 3.VÁRIOS. Nova Enciclopédia Barsa. 13. 85-7026-493-3.
- 4.Correio Braziliense. 2025-03-05.
- 5.Estado de Minas. 2025-03-04.
- 6.Affonso Romano e Marina Colasanti: amor além da literatura
- 7.G1. 2025-03-04.
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