Mário Quintana
Writer, Author
1906 – 1994
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Who was Mário Quintana?
Mário de Miranda Quintana was a Brazilian writer and translator.
He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time. Quintana also worked as a journalist and translated into Portuguese innumerable books, such as Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
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- Born
- Jul 30, 1906
Alegrete, Brazil - Also known as
- Mário de Miranda Quintana
- Parents
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Profession
- Lived in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Died
- May 5, 1994
Porto Alegre
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on July 23, 2013
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