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Gerardo Majella Mello Mourao (January 8, 1917 ? March 9, 2007) was a Brazilian poet, fictionist, politician, journalist, translator, essayist and biographer, considered a key figure in both the national and all Lusophone literature.

Mello Mourao was widely awarded, competing for the Nobel Prize in Literature by nomination from The State University of New York . ^[1]

His most famous works are Invention of the Sea, with which he won the Jabuti Prize , and the trilogy Os Peas. Of this trilogy, Ezra Pound commented:

"In all my work, what I tried to do was write the epic of America. I don't think I could. Who achieved it was the poet of The Country of the Moors".

Mourao was praised and recognized by the likes of Jorge Luis Borges , Antonio Houaiss , Nelida Pinon , Alfredo Bosi , Dora Ferreira da Silva, Wilson Martins and Antonio Candido .

Carlos Drummond de Andrade defined him as "the great poet of Brazil". His private life was marked by numerous arrests, given his involvement with the ideological movements of the twentieth century. A member of the Integralist Movement , he later became a willing German intelligence agent in Brazil. ^[2] During the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas , Mello Mourao was arrested 18 times. Already in the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship, he was taken to the inquiry and tortured, this time on charges of contributing to the Communists.

Works [ edit ]

In Portuguese.

• Poesia do homem so (Rio de Janeiro: Ariel Editora, 1938)
• Mustafa Kemel (1938)
• Do Destino do Espirito (1941)
• Argentina (1942)
• Cabo das Tormentas (Edic?oes do Atril, 1950)
• Tres Pavanas (Sao Paulo: GRD, 1961)
• O Pais dos Mouroes (Sao Paulo: GRD, 1963)
• Dossie da destruicao (Sao Paulo: GRD, 1966)
• Frei e Chile num continente ocupado (Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1966)
• Peripecia de Gerardo (Sao Paulo: Paz e Terra, 1972) [Premio Mario de Andrade de 1972]
• Astro de Apolo (Sao Paulo: GRD, 1977)
• O Canto de Amor e Morte do Porta-estandarte Cristovao Rilke [traducao] (1977)
• Pierro della Francesca ou as Vizinhas Chilenas: Contos (Sao Paulo: GRD, 1979)
• Os Peas (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1982)
• A invencao do saber (Sao Paulo: Paz e Terra, 1983)
• Valete de Espadas (Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara, 1986)
• O Poema, de Parmenides [traducao] ( in Caderno Lilas, Secretaria de Cultura da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro: Caderno Rio-Arte. Ano 2, nr. 5, 1986)
• Suzana-3 - Elegia e inventario (Sao Paulo: GRD, 1994)
• Invencao do Mar: Carmen sæculare (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1997), ^[3] Premio Jabuti 1999
• Canon & fuga (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1999) ^[4]
• Um Senador de Pernambuco: Breve Memoria de Antonio de Barros Carvalho (Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 1999) ^[5]
• O Bebado de Deus (Sao Paulo: Green Forest do Brasil, 2000) ^[6]
• Os Olhos do Gato & O Retoque Inacabado (2002)
• O sagrado e o profano (Florianopolis: Museu/Arquivo da Poesia Manuscrita, 2002)
• Algumas Partituras (Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 2002)
• O Nome de Deus [posthumous] ( in : Confraria 2 anos, 2007)

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