Antonio Olavo Pereira
Antonio Olavo Pereira (5 February 1913 – 15 November 1993) was a Brazilian writer and editor.
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Biography
Antonio Olavo Pereira was born in Batatais, São Paulo, the fifth son in a family of nine children.[1] He moved to São Paulo at the age of 14, where he studied at Colégio Rio Branco and Ginásio do Estado. His older brother, José Olympio, who had started out in the book trade in 1918 at the old Casa Garraux in São Paulo, founded what for decades was Brazil's most important publishing house, Livraria José Olympio Editora, in 1931.[1]
Antonio Olavo's first writings appeared in O Malho, a well knoen literary magazine from the first decades of the 20th century.[1] His first book appeared in 1950: the novel Contramão, which had won the Fábio Prado Prize the previous year, one of the most important at the time. The work earned a preface by Graciliano Ramos, which remains unpublished, in which the author of São Bernardo pointed out that few contemporary Brazilian authors had debuted with such maturity.[1]
Marcoré (1957) was a definitive success with the public and critics. Awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, published in Portugal and the United States, it has reached thirteen editions[1] and was translated into English by Alfred Hower and John Saunders in 1970.
In 1979, Pereira received the Governor of the State of São Paulo Prize for his work as a whole. The judging panel was made up of the likes of Lygia Fagundes Telles, José Aderaldo Castello, Mário Chamie, Nilo Scalzo and Ricardo Ramos.[1]
He was married for more than forty years to Gulnara Lobato de Moraes Pereira, translator and author of O Menino Juca, a biography of Monteiro Lobato, her uncle, aimed at young people. The couple had a son.
Antonio Olavo Pereira died in São Paulo.
Works
- Contramão (1950; novella)
- Marcoré (1957; 2013; novel)
- Fio de Prumo (1965; novel)
- Uma Certa Borboleta Azul (1990; children's literature)
- O Químico da Terra (unpublished; children's literature)
Notes
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- Hower, Alfred (1970). "Introduction." In: Antonio Olavo Pereira, Marcoré. Austin: The University of Texas Press, pp. ix–xiv.
- Vieira, Nelson H. (1983). "Fictional Autobiography in the Novel, Marcoré: Confessions of a Brazilian Soul," Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. XX, No. 1, pp. 139–49.
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