Frederico Barbosa is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Places of residence

Barbosa moved with his family to São Paulo

São Paulo

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, where he currently lives, when he was six. He lived for some time in the United States

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, in New Haven, Connecticut

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, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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 and Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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Education

Barbosa began undergraduate studies in physics

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 and Greek

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 at the University of São Paulo

University of São Paulo

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, where he majored in Portuguese Language

Portuguese language

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 and Brazilian and Portuguese Literature. He never completed his master's program in Brazilian Literature.

Career

A literary critic at the Jornal da Tarde and Folha de S. Paulo for some years, he currently directs one of the most important cultural centers in Brazil, the Casa das Rosas - Espaço Haroldo de Campos de Poesia e Literatura.

Works

His poems have been published in various journals in Brazil. His first book, Rarefato (Editora Iluminuras, 1990), was chosen by the newspapers O Estado de São Paulo and O Estado de Minas (Belo Horizonte) as one of the best books published in the country that year.

His second book, Nada Feito Nada (Editora Perspectiva,1993), was published by the prestigious Coleção Signos, edited by Haroldo de Campos

Haroldo de Campos

Haroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He did his secondary education at the College of St. Benedict, where he learned the first foreign language, like Latin, English, Spanish and French...

, and was awarded the most important literary prize in the country, the Jabuti Prize.

Recently, his poems have been translated and published in anthologies in several countries, as the United States, Australia

Australia

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, Mexico

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, Spain

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 and Colombia

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In 2000, Frederico Barbosa published Cinco Séculos de Poesia - Anthology of Classic Brazilian Poetry, (Landy Editora) and Contracorrente - poems, (Iluminuras). In 2001 Frederico Barbosa published an annotaded edition of the episodes Inês de Castro and O Velho do Restelo, from The Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões

Luís de Camões

Luís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...

(Landy Editora) and released his fourth book of poetry, Louco no Oco sem Beiras - Anatomia da Depressão, by Ateliê Editorial.

In 2002 Frederico Barbosa published, with Claudio Daniel, an anthology of contemporary Brazilian poetry, Na Virada do Século - Poesia de Invenção no Brasil (Landy Editora) and released his fifth book of poetry, Cantar de amor entre os escombros, also by Landy. For this publishing house, he created and edits the Alguidar Collection. In 2004 he published A Consciência do Zero (Lamparina) and won his second Jabuti Prize with Brasibraseiro.