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Mário de Andrade
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada, published in 1922. He has had considerable influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his infl…
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culture · Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer (1893–1945) · poet · journalist · photographer · musicologist · writer · novelist · art critic · pianist · also Mário de Andrade, Mário Raul de Morais Andrade, Robert Philippe Laurent Andrade, Andrade
Born 9 October 1893 · Died 25 February 1945 · Q203623
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
revistapesquisa.fapesp: Letters from Oswald to Mário de Andrade reveal the underground face of modernism
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2023· 1 entry
revistapesquisa.fapesp: Erotica in the work of Mário de Andrade
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2018· 1 entry
Boston Review: Mário de Andrade
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2006).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Prêmio Jabuti (1979).
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1969· 1 entry
By Brazilian director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, updating Andrade's story to the 1960s and shifting it to Rio de Janeiro; the film was rereleased internationally in 2009
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1960· 1 entry
The municipal library of São Paulo was renamed Biblioteca Mário de Andrade
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1955· 1 entry
(the year after Vargas's death) signalled the start of Andrade's canonization as one of the cultural heroes of Brazil
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-02-25.
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1941· 1 entry
Where he worked on a collected edition of his poetry
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1938· 1 entry
Andrade moved to Rio de Janeiro to take up a post at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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1937· 1 entry
When Vargas returned to power and Duarte was exiled
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1935· 1 entry
During an unstable period in Vargas's government, Andrade and writer and archaeologist Paulo Duarte, who had for many years desired to promote cultural research and activity in the city through a municipal agency, were a
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1928· 1 entry
Was Macunaíma, a novel about a man ("The hero without a character" is the subtitle of the novel) from an indigenous tribe who comes to São Paulo, learns its languages—both of them, the novel says: Portuguese and Brazilia
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1927· 1 entry
Started writing a travelogue called "The apprentice tourist" for the newspaper O Diario Nacional
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1922· 1 entry
While preparing Paulicéia Desvairada for publication, Andrade collaborated with Malfatti and Oswald de Andrade in creating a single event that would introduce their work to the wider public: the Semana de Arte Moderna (M
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1920· 1 entry
Had recently met the modernist sculptor Victor Brecheret, and bought a sculpture from him entitled "Bust of Christ," which depicted Christ as a Brazilian with braided hair
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1917· 1 entry
The year of his graduation, he published his first book of poems, Há uma Gota de Sangue em Cada Poema (There is a drop of blood in each poem), under the pseudonym Mário Sobral
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1913· 1 entry
His 14-year-old brother Renato died suddenly during a football game; Andrade left the Conservatory to stay at Araraquara, where his family had a farm
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-10-09.
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