Manoel de Barros

Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros (December 19, 1916 – November 13, 2014) was a Brazilian poet. He has won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize"), the most important literary award in Brazil.

Contents

• Poema dif cil fotografar o sil ncio de manoel de barros declamado por ant nio abujamra
• Manoel de barros o livro das ignorancas mundo pequeno e autorretrato
• Translated editions
• References

Barros was born in Cuiabá, and is regarded by critics as one of the great names of contemporary Brazilian poetry, and by many authors he has been considered the greatest living poet from Brazil. The poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade recognized Manoel de Barros as the biggest poet of Brazil.

In 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. He died, aged 97, in Campo Grande.

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)