Ana Cristina César (June 2, 1952 – October 29, 1983) was a poet, literary critic and translator from

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. She came from a middle-class

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background and was usually known as "Ana C." She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She spent some time in England in 1968 and, on returning to Brazil, she became a published author of note. The 1970s and early 1980s were the peak of her poetic career. She is considered one of the main names of the mimeograph generation, also known as the marginal poetry of the 1970s. She returned to England in 1983. One of the authors she admired was Sylvia Plath. She shared some commonalities with her in temperament and fate. She died in 1983 by jumping out of a window at her parents´ apartment, in Rio de Janeiro.

Principal works

Poetry

* ''A Teus Pés t Your Feet' * ''Inéditos e Dispersos nedited and Dispersed' * ''Novas Seletas'' '' ew Anthology' (posthumous, put out by Armando Freitas Filho)

Criticism

* ''Crítica e Tradução riticism and Translation'

References

External links

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A Portuguese language poetry journal
1952 births 1983 suicides 1983 deaths Brazilian translators Suicides by jumping in Brazil Translators to Portuguese 20th-century translators 20th-century Brazilian poets Brazilian women poets 20th-century Brazilian women writers {{Brazil-translator-stub