Décio Pignatari
Décio Pignatari (born August 20, 1927 in Jundiaí , † December 2, 2012 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian poet , essayist and translator .
Life
Pignatari graduated from the Faculdade de Direito of the University of São Paulo in 1954 with a law degree . In the same years he began to create Concrete Poetry and founded the Brazilian Concretism with Augusto and Haroldo de Campos , made famous by the Noigandres group .
As a communication scientist and semioticist, Pignatari translated works by Marshall McLuhan and published the article Informação, Linguagem e Comunicação (1968). His poems are published in book form under the title Poesia Pois é Poesia (1977). Pignatari also published translations by Dante Alighieri , Goethe and Shakespeare , which he published under the titles Retrato do Amor quando Jovem (1990) and 231 poemas . He also published the volume of short stories O Rosto da Memória (1988) and the novel Panteros (1992) as well as the play Céu de Lona .
Web links
- Literature by and about Décio Pignatari in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about Décio Pignatari in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Décio Pignatari in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Poeta Décio Pignatari morre from 85 in São Paulo.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Décio Pignatari ( memento of October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná , web archive accessed on May 5, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pignatari, Décio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian poet, essayist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jundiaí |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 2012 |
| Place of death | São Paulo |