Adrino Aragão (Adrino Aragão de Freitas), (born 1936 in

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, State of Amazon,

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), is a Brazilian short-story writer. In the 1970's And 1980's, he was a prominent Desed magazine (

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) and BIP – Boletim de Informação ao Pessoal, do Banco do Brasil S.A. (

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) reporter. BIP had a circulation of over 100.000 every week. Adrino Aragão wrote several reviews of new Brazilian books. After his retirement, he wrote essays on Comparative Literature and Literary Theory for

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/Rio de Janeiro and academicals publications. He is recognized by his focus on the fables and traditional stories. He wrote on the short stories of

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. His book ''O Champanhe'' (''Champagne'') focus on the study of the theatre of

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. He lives in Brasília D.F. and he participated as Member of Committees for granting Literary Prizes in

and in

D.F., Brazil. He is a member of the União Brasileira de Escritores ( The Writers's Union of Brazil) and wrote several essays on Clube da Madrugada, an amazonian avant-garde movement formed in 1954 by

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, Farias de Carvalho, Luiz Bacellar, and other Brazilian poets and artists. He is a regular articulist of ''O Pioneiro'' magazine (Brasília D.F.), edited by the poet and journalist Heitor Humberto de Andrade.

Books

* Roteiro dos vivos (1972) * Inquietação de um feto (1976) * As três faces da esfinge (1985) * A verdadeira festa no céu (1991) * Tigre no espelho (1992) * Os filhos da esfinge (1998) * No dia em que Manuelzão se encantou (2000) * História da Infância (1996) * Conto, não-conto e outras inquietações (2006) * A cabeça do peregrino cortada em triunfo pelos filhos do Cão (2006) * O champanhe (2007)

Notes

Sources

* COUTINHO, Afrânio e SOUZA, J. Galante de. Enciclopédia de Literatura Brasileira, Vol. 1, Ministério da Cultura/Fundação Biblioteca Nacional-DNL (Departamento Nacional do Livro) /Global Editora/Academia Brasileira de Letras,

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, 2001 (Topics "Adrino Aragão" e "Clube da Madrugada"). * TUFIC, Jorge. A nova geração de artistas e escritores do Amazonas. Jornal de Letras (Rio de Janeiro), maio de 1966, p. 8.

External links

* ARAGÃO, Adrino. Amazônia em Brasília (resenha do livro ''Bordado para iniciantes'', do poeta do Clube da Madrugada Donaldo Mello (Ed. Valer,

, 2008). In O Pioneiro magazine,

, abril de 2009, nº 10, pp. 40–41). 1936 births Living people Brazilian male writers {{Brazil-writer-stub