Raimundo Carrero
Raimundo Carrero (born December 20, 1947 in Salgueiro , Pernambuco ) is a Brazilian writer and journalist .
As a journalist he worked for radio, television and the newspaper Diario de Pernambuco for 25 years , including as a literary critic. He was part of the Movimento Amorial artist movement , which had formed in the northeast region of Brazil.
He was press spokesman for the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco and the University of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco . Until 1998 he was president of the cultural heritage foundation 'Fundação de Patrimônio Artístico e Histórico de Pernambuco' (Fundarpe).
Carrero won numerous literary prizes. He took part in the literary festivals FLIP Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty and FLIPORTO in Porto de Galinhas .
None of his works have appeared in Germany so far.
Works
- As sombrias ruínas da alma
- Os segredos da ficção
- A história de Bernarda Soledade - A tigre do sertão (1975)
- As sementes do sol - O semeador (1981)
- A dupla face do baralho - Confissões do comissário Félix Gurgel (1984)
- Sombra severa (1986)
- Maçã agreste (1989)
- Sinfonia para vagabundos (1992)
- Extremos do arco-íris (1992)
- Somos pedras que se consomem (1995)
- As sombrias ruínas da alma (1999)
- O delicado abismo da loucura (2005), short stories
- O amor nicht tem bons sentimentos (2007)
- A preparação do escritor (2009)
- A minha alma é irmã de deus (2009)
- Seria uma sombria noite secreta (2011)
- Tango lo Mango (2013)
- O senhor agora vai mudar de corpo (2015)
Literary prizes
- Prêmio José Condé of the State of Pernambuco 1984
- Prêmio Lucilo Varejão of the City of Recife 1986
- Award for Best Novelist of the Year (Melhor Romancista do Ano) of the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte 1995
- Prêmio Machado de Assis literary prize (Best Novel 1995) from the Brazilian National Library in Rio de Janeiro
- Prêmio Jabuti 2000 for As sombrias ruínas da alma
Web links
- Literature by and about Raimundo Carrero in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Official website of Raimundo Carrero
- Carrero, Raimundo on the website enciclopédia Itaú Cultural literatura brasileira
- Film O caçador de assombrações about 30 years of literary work by Raimundo Carrero (excerpt)
- Reading Raimundo Carreros from Tango lo Mango in Berlin
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Carrero, Raimundo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian journalist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Salgueiro , Pernambuco |