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Manoel de Oliveira Lima (
Recife
That it may shine on all ( Matthew 5:15)
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, state of
Pernambuco
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, Brazil, December 25, 1867 –
Washington, D.C.
)
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, March 24, 1928) was a Brazilian writer, literary critic, diplomat, historian, and journalist.
He represented Brazil in several countries and was a visiting professor at
Harvard University
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. He was a founding member of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters
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.
Passionate about books, he collected them throughout his life and assembled the third largest collection on Brazil, losing only to the
National Library of Brazil
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and to the library of the
University of São Paulo
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. The Oliveira Lima Library, located at the
Catholic University of America, Washington, USA, has 58,000 books in addition to correspondence exchanged with intellectuals, more than six hundred paintings and countless albums of clippings with newspaper news. It is part of the collection also one of the three busts of
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sculpted by
Marc Ferrez (uncle of the eponymous
photographer
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), the only one of the three made in bronze.
References
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Brazilian writers
1867 births
1928 deaths