Nilo de Oliveira Pereira (11 December 1909, in
Ceará-Mirim
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Etymology
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– 23 January 1992, in
Recife
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) was a Brazilian
journalist
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and
teacher
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.
He graduated in law at the
Faculty of Law of Recife
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in 1932,
but practiced law only briefly.
Journalist
He exercised journalism in the following periodicals:
* Diário de Natal
* A República
* O Estado
* Tribuna do Norte
* Folha da Manha (he was editor in chief)
* Jornal Pequeno
* The Tribune
*
Jornal do Commercio
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(Recife)
* Jornal do Commercio (Rio de Janeiro)
*
Diário de Pernambuco
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Literary life
He was a member of the following literary and cultural institutions:
*
Academia Pernambucana de Letras (Chair 16)
[* PARAISO, ROSTAND. ''Academia Pernambucana de Letras - Sua História. Vol I''. ]Recife
That it may shine on all ( Matthew 5:15)
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, APL, 2006.
* Instituto Arqueológico, Histórico e Geográrico Pernambucano
Books published
* Camões e Nabuco(1949);
* Revisionismo e tradição (1950);
*
Dom Vital e a questão religiosa no Brasil (1966);
* Conflitos entre a Igreja e o Estado no Brasil (1970);
* Espírito de província (1970);
* Ensaios de história regional (1972);
* Agamenon Magalhães: uma evocação pessoal (1973);
* O tempo mágico (1975);
* A Faculdade de Direito do Recife, 1927-1977 (1977);
* Um tempo do Recife (1978);
* Reflexões de um fim de século (1979);
* Igreja e Estado: relações difíceis (1982);
* Iniciação ao jornalismo: pesquisa histórica (1982);
* A rosa verde: crônica quase romance (1982);
* Pernambucanidade: alguns aspectos históricos (1983);
* Gilberto Freyre visto de perto (1986);
* Mauro Mota e o seu tempo (1987);
* Profissionais de Pernambuco (1989);
* O Estado Novo em Pernambuco (1989);
* (1990);
Awards
* Professor Emeritus and Honorary Doctorate from the University Federal de Pernambuco
* Doctor Honoris Causa from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte;
* Carneiro Vilela Medal of Pernambuco Academy of Letters
*
Prêmio Machado de Assis
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of Brazilian Academy of Letters.
References
External links
Nilo PereiraAbout Museu Nilo PereiraEnciclopédia Nordeste - Nilo Pereira
1909 births
1992 deaths
Brazilian journalists
People from Ceará-Mirim
20th-century journalists
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