José Paulo Paes (22 July 1926 – 9 October 1998) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator.
Biography
Paes was born in
Taquaritinga
Taquaritinga is a city in the Central North area of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is 57,364 (2020 est.) in an area of 594 km². The population is formed basically by European descendants (Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese). Af ...
in the state of São Paulo. He studied industrial chemistry in
Curitiba
Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan area ...
, where he also started his literary career. He wrote poems for the magazine ''Joaquim'', directed by
Dalton Trevisan
Dalton Jérson Trevisan (born 14 June 1925) is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas." Trevisan won the 2012 Prémio Camões, the leading Portu ...
.
His first book of poems, ''O Aluno'', was published in 1947.
Paes moved to São Paulo in 1949, writing poems while also working in a pharmaceutical laboratory.
In 1963, he left the laboratory to work as an editor at the Editora Cultrix publishing house, retiring in 1981 and dedicating completely to writing. The author died in São Paulo on 9 October 1998.
Published works
* O aluno (1947)
* Cúmplices (1951)
* Novas cartas chilenas (1954)
* Mistério em casa (1961)
* Resíduo (1973)
* Calendário perplexo (1983)
* É isso ali (1984)
* Gregos e baianos (1985)
* Prosas seguidas de odes mínimas (1992)
* A poesia está morta mas juro que não fui eu (1988)
* De ontem para hoje (1996)
* Um passarinho me contou (Prêmio Jabuti 1997)
* Melhores poemas (1998)
* Uma letra puxa a outra (1998)
* Ri melhor quem ri primeiro (1999)
* O lugar do outro (1999)
* Socráticas (2001)
References
External links
''José Paulo Paes'' on Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural
1926 births
1998 deaths
20th-century Brazilian poets
Brazilian translators
Brazilian literary critics
20th-century translators
20th-century Brazilian male writers
Brazilian male poets
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