Adrino Aragão (Adrino Aragão de Freitas), (born 1936 in Manaus, State of Amazon, Brazil), is a Brazilian short-story writer.[1] In the 1970's And 1980's, he was a prominent Desed magazine (Brasília) and BIP – Boletim de Informação ao Pessoal, do Banco do Brasil S.A. (Bank of Brazil) reporter. BIP had a circulation of over 100.000 every week.[2] Adrino Aragão wrote several reviews of new Brazilian books. After his retirement, he wrote essays on Comparative Literature and Literary Theory for Jornal do Brasil/Rio de Janeiro and academicals publications.[3]
He is recognized by his focus on the fables and traditional stories. He wrote on the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. His book O Champanhe (Champagne) focus on the study of the theatre of Anton Chekhov.
He lives in Brasília D.F. and he participated as Member of Committees for granting Literary Prizes in Manaus and in Brasília D.F., Brazil. He is a member of the União Brasileira de Escritores (The Writers's Union of Brazil)[4] and wrote several essays on Clube da Madrugada, an amazonian avant-garde movement formed in 1954 by Jorge Tufic, Farias de Carvalho, Luiz Bacellar, and other Brazilian poets and artists.
He is a regular articulist of O Pioneiro magazine (Brasília D.F.),[5] edited by the poet and journalist Heitor Humberto de Andrade.[6]
Books
edit- Roteiro dos vivos (1972)
- Inquietação de um feto (1976)
- As três faces da esfinge (1985)
- A verdadeira festa no céu (1991)
- Tigre no espelho (1992)
- Os filhos da esfinge (1998)
- No dia em que Manuelzão se encantou (2000)
- História da Infância (1996)
- Conto, não-conto e outras inquietações (2006)
- A cabeça do peregrino cortada em triunfo pelos filhos do Cão (2006)
- O champanhe (2007)
Notes
edit- ^ "AUTORES". 2008-11-20. Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae". Archived from the original on 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ "MATRAGA Estudos Lingüísticos e Literários". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ "Autores". Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-04. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Eustáquio Costa: Homenagem a um Poeta Vivo". 17 March 2007.
Sources
edit- COUTINHO, Afrânio e SOUZA, J. Galante de. Enciclopédia de Literatura Brasileira, Vol. 1, Ministério da Cultura/Fundação Biblioteca Nacional-DNL (Departamento Nacional do Livro) /Global Editora/Academia Brasileira de Letras, São Paulo, 2001 (Topics "Adrino Aragão" e "Clube da Madrugada").
- TUFIC, Jorge. A nova geração de artistas e escritores do Amazonas. Jornal de Letras (Rio de Janeiro), maio de 1966, p. 8.
External links
edit- ARAGÃO, Adrino. Amazônia em Brasília (resenha do livro Bordado para iniciantes, do poeta do Clube da Madrugada Donaldo Mello [5] (Ed. Valer, Manaus, 2008). In O Pioneiro magazine, Brasília, abril de 2009, nº 10, pp. 40–41).
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