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
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Nationality
  • Brazil
Profession
Lived in
  • Rio Grande do Sul
Died
May 5, 1994
Porto Alegre

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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