Thiago de Mello

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Thiago de Mello is the literary name of the Brazilian poet , writer , translator and active rainforest conservationist Amadeu Thiago de Mello ( born March 30, 1926 in Barreirinha , Amazonas state ; † January 14, 2022 in Manaus ). He was considered one of the country's most respected writers and particularly as an icon of regional Amazonian literature. His work has been translated into numerous languages.

Life

After completing his primary education at Grupo Escolar Barão do Rio Branco and high school at Gyminásio Pedro II in Manaus , Thiago de Mello moved to Rio de Janeiro , where he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine (Faculdade Nacional de Medicina), which however, he left after four years to pursue the path of an independent poet. In the glamorous Brazilian capital of the 1950s, this was not only a political decision for him, but also one of the necessity of literary engagement. His first book, Silêncio e Palavra , was published in 1951 and immediately received critical acclaim.

During the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985 he first exiled to Chile, where he found a friend and political sympathizer in Pablo Neruda and had to witness the violent overthrow of President Salvador Allende and the military coup that followed.

In 1964 his probably best-known poem Os Estatutos do Homen (German: "The Statutes of Man") was created, which represented a protest against the military regime in the proclamation of simple human rights and was allegedly immediately banned by it. His further exile took him to Argentina, Portugal, France and Germany. After the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship, he moved back to his native city of Barreirinha, where he lived in a house designed by the architect Lúcio Costa and worked for the integrity of the Amazon and for human rights.

In the years of his literary work, the poet Thiago de Mello received national and international prizes and awards.

Leonardo Boff , left, and Thiago de Mello in 2010

Services

In addition to his own work, he could look back on a long career as a translator of Latin American poetry by Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo , Ernesto Cardenal , Eliseo Diego, Nicolás Guillén , but also by TS Eliot into Portuguese. Apart from Brazil, his own works have appeared in Chile, Cuba, Argentina, Portugal, the USA, France, Great Britain and Germany. His poem Die Statuten des Menschen in particular also appeared in various collections and anthologies, for example on the social and political situation in Brazil, for example here in Almanac 10 for literature and theology (Wuppertal 1976), and various translations of it are circulating on the Internet. Pablo Neruda said about him: "Thiago de Mello is a soul transformer", he dedicated the poem Thiago y Santiago to him .

awards

In addition, Thiago de Mello was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de France in the 1980s .

factories

  • 1951: Silêncio e palavra
  • 1952: Narciso cego (German: Blind Narcissus, 1962)
  • 1956: A lenda da rosa
  • 1960: Ventogeral
  • 1965: Faz escuro mas eu canto (German: Dark but singing, 1965)
  • 1966: A canção do amor armado (English: Song of Armed Love, 1976)
  • 1977: Os Estatutos do Homem (German: The Statutes of Man, 1964)
  • 1981: Mormaço na floresta
  • 1982: Horóscopo para os que estão vivos (English: Horoscope for all who are alive, 1984)
  • 1986: Num campo de margaridas
  • 1991: Amazonas, pátria da àgua with photographs by Luiz Cláudio Marigo (German: Amazonas, Heimat der Wasser, 1988)
  • 1992: Os Estatutos do Homem e Poemas inéditos
  • 1993: Borges na luz de Borges
  • 1996: De uma vez por todas (English: Once and for all, 2002)
  • 1999: Campo de milagres

discography

  • 1977: Peter Janssens : The Statutes of Man for orchestra and choir, voice: Peter Janssens and Thiago de Mello
  • 1990/2010: Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt : The Statutes of Man for chamber orchestra
  • 2006: A Criação do Mundo (On his 80th birthday: Thiago de Mello reads his own poems from 55 years of work, musically accompanied by his brother Gaudêncio Thiago de Mello )

web links

Commons : Thiago de Mello  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ Morre poeta amazonense Thiago de Mello aos 95 anos. In: globo.com. January 14, 2022, retrieved January 14, 2022 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ See the illustration on the website about Thiago de Mello by Antonio Miranda.
  3. ↑ See, for example, the translation by Catharina Wendt used in the German-speaking world after 1976 in the Latin American-Austrian Literature Forum ( Memento from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) or the slightly corrected newer one by Ronald M. Filkas
  4. ↑ Quoted by Thiago de Mello at the V. Festival of Latin American Poetry in Vienna ( Memento of December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), last retrieved on August 8, 2018
  5. ↑ Jornal de Poesia - Pablo Neruda: Thiago y Santiago
  6. ↑ See V. Festival of Latin American Poetry in Vienna, as above
  7. ↑ a b For a complete overview of the works, see Jornal de Poesia - Thiago de Mello: Bibliografia (Portuguese)
  8. ↑ AgênciaConsciência.Net: " Selo Karmim lança disco em comemoração aos 80 anos de Thiago de Mello " from May 2006, last accessed on July 17, 2012 (Portuguese)
personal data
SURNAME Mello, Thiago de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiago de Mello, Amadeu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian poet, writer, translator
BIRTH DATE March 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Barreirinha , Amazon , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH manaus