Alice Ruiz

Alice Ruiz

Alice Ruiz (born January 22, 1946 in Curitiba , Paraná ) is a Brazilian poet and translator .

Life

Alice Ruiz began to write as a teenager and published her poems in magazines and newspapers for many years from 1962. In 1966 she went to Rio de Janeiro, returned to Curitiba and in 1968 married the writer Paulo Leminski . She studied haiku poetry, an interest she shared with her husband, and published four translations of texts by Japanese poets.

It was not until she was 34 that she managed to publish her first independent book Navalhanaliga , a total of 25 works. In 2013 a joint film biography Alice e Paulo was published, directed by Gustavo Tissot.

Awards

• 2009 Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura (best volume of poetry of the year) for Dois em Um

Poetic work

• Naval League League. 1980
• Paixão Xama Paixão. 1983
• Pelos Pêlos. 1984
• Hai-tropikai (with Paulo Leminski). 1985
• Rimagens. 1985
• Nuvem Feliz. 1986
• Vice Versos. 1988
• Disorientais. 1996
• Haikais (with Guilherme Mansur). 1998
• Poesia Pra Tocar no Rádio. 1999
• Yuuka. 2004
• Dois em Um. 2008
• Conversa de Passarinho. 2008
• Três linhas. 2009
• Boa Companhia. 2009
• Nuvem Felix. 2010
• Jardim de Haijin. 2010
• Proesias. 2010
• Dois Haikais. 2011
• Estação dos bichos. 2011
• Luminares. 2012

Translations

• Dec Haiku. 1981
• Ceu de Outro Lugar. 1985
• Sendas da Sedução. 1987
• Issa. 1988

literature

• Personagem Alice Ruiz . (= Mnemozine. Revista de literatura ; 3). 2006.

Web links

• Alice Ruiz website
• Blog Alice Ruiz
• Ruiz, Alice in the Enciclopédia literatura brasileira , Itaù Cultural
• Biography Alice Ruiz on the website letras.com.br
• Literature by and about Alice Ruiz in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alice e Paulo on adorocinema . (Portuguese, accessed February 18, 2014).