Wilson Martins (literary critic)

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Name Wilson Martins Role Literary critic		Books The modernist idea

Died January 30, 2010, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Education Federal University of Parana (1952) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, Latin America & Caribbean

Wilson Martins (March 3, 1921, São Paulo - January 30, 2010) was a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo.

He graduated from the Universidade Federal do Paraná and taught at New York University from 1965 to 1991. In 2002, the Academia Brasileira de Letras awarded him the Prêmio Machado de Assis for his lifetime's work.

Works

His major works include:

O Modernismo (1965, 5ª ed. 1977) - tr. Jack Tomlins (1971), The modernist idea: a critical survey of Brazilian writing in the twentieth century, New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-0293-7 reviewed at [1]

História da Inteligência Brasileira - 7 volumes

A Crítica Literária no Brasil - 2 volumes

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