Cecília Meireles

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Cecília Meireles enters Lisbon , drawing by Fernando Correia Dias (1934)

Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (born November 7, 1901 in Rio de Janeiro ; † November 9, 1964 there ) was a Brazilian poet and journalist.

Meireles grew up with a grandmother after the early death of her parents. After graduating from Escola Normal in 1917, she became a teacher and two years later established her reputation as a poet with the sonnet book Espectros . In 1922 she married the Portuguese artist Fernando Correia Dias , with whom she had three daughters. Their youngest, Maria Fernanda , became known as an actress.

In the early 1930s Meireles was particularly active as a journalist and was responsible for the daily page on education for the magazine Diário de Notícias . In 1934 she became director of the Instituto Infantil at the Mourisco Pavilion and founded a children's library. At the invitation of the Secretaria de Propaganda , she and her husband went on a trip to Portugal and in 1935 became a lecturer in Brazilian literature at the Universidade do Distrito Federal .

After her husband's suicide, Meireles increased her teaching activities and contributed regularly to various newspapers such as A Manhã , Correio Paulistano and A Nação . In 1938 she received the poetry prize of the Brazilian Academy of Literature for her book Viagem . In 1940 she taught Brazilian literature and culture at the University of Texas . She wrote other volumes of poetry and published a series of studies on children's folklore in A Manhã magazine .

In 1951 she was secretary of the First National Folklore Congress in Rio Grande do Sul. In the following year she received the Chilean Order of Merit and became an honorary member of the Gabinete Português de Leitura at the Instituto Vasco da Gama in Goa. In 1953, the volume of poetry O Romanceiro da Inconfidência was published , which is her main work. At the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru , she took part in a symposium on the work of Mahatma Gandhi and was awarded an honorary title by the University of Delhi . For the poetry book Poemas de Israel she received a Prêmio Jabuti in the translation category in 1963 and the 1964 prize in the poetry category for the book Solombra . In 1964 she succumbed to cancer. The Brazilian Academy of Literature awarded her posthumously in 1965 for her life's work with the Prêmio Machado de Assis .

Works

  • Espectros , 1919
  • Nunca mais ... e Poema dos Poemas , 1923
  • Baladas para El-Rei , 1925
  • Criança, meu amor , 1927
  • Viagem , 1939
  • Vaga música , 1942
  • Mar Absoluto e Outros Poemas , 1945
  • Retrato natural , 1949
  • Amor em Leonoreta , 1951
  • Dec noturnos de Holanda & O aeronauta , 1952
  • Romanceiro da Inconfidência , 1953
  • Pequeno Oratório de Santa Clara , 1955
  • Pistóia, Cemitério Militar Brasileiro , 1955
  • Canções , 1956
  • Romance de Santa Cecília , 1957
  • Obra poética , 1958
  • Metal Rosicler , 1960
  • Poemas escritos na Índia , 1961
  • Poemas de Israel , 1963
  • Solombra , 1963
  • Ou isto ou aquilo , 1964
  • Crônica trovada da cidade de Sam Sebastiam , 1965
  • Poemas italianos , 1968
  • Ou isto ou aquilo & Inéditos , 1969
  • Cânticos , 1981
  • Oratório de Santa Maria Egipcíaca , 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Meireles, Cecília
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meireles, Cecília Benevides de Carvalho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1964
Place of death Rio de Janeiro