Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna (born March 27, 1937), is a Brazilian poet, essay writer, and professor.

Background

He was a professor of Brazilian Literature at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

and the

University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas. It is a member of the University of Texas System. UTEP is the second-largest university in the United States to have a majority Mexican American stud ...

, and a writer for the

O Globo ''O Globo'' (, ''The Globe'') is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro. ''O Globo'' is the most prominent print publication in the Grupo Globo media conglomerate. Founded by journalist Irineu Marinho, owner of ''A Noite'', it was orig ...

newspaper. In 1971 he married

Marina Colasanti Marina Colasanti (born September 26, 1937 in Asmara, old Italian colony in Eritrea) is an Italian writer, translator and journalist. She lived in Libya during her infancy, and then she moved to Italy, where she lived for eleven years. Her family ...

, a

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian journalist and writer. In 1984, he began writing for

Jornal do Brasil ''Jornal do Brasil'', widely known as ''JB'', is a daily newspaper published by Editora JB in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper was founded in 1891 and is the third oldest extant Brazilian paper, after the ''Diário de Pernambuco'' and ''O Esta ...

Works

* 1962 – ''O Desemprego da Poesia'' * 1965 – ''Canto e Palavra'' (poem book) * 1980 – ''Que país é este?'' * 1986 – ''A Mulher Madura'' (book of articles for

)

References

External links

Releituras (Portuguese)
1937 births University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Texas at El Paso faculty Living people {{Brazil-writer-stub