''Senhor'' (also stylized as ''Sr.'',

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: ''Sir'') was a monthly cultural magazine published in the period of 1959 and 1964. The magazine was headquartered in

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History and profile

''Senhor'' was established by Nahum Sirotsky in 1959. Nahum Sirotsky was a Brazilian diplomat and journalist, who hailed from a

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family. The first issue of ''Senhor'' was published in March 1959, and its headquarters was in Rio de Janeiro. ''Senhor'' was published on a monthly basis. The magazine was very creative in terms of

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which is regarded as one of the significant projects in the Brazilian press of the 1960s. The covers of ''Senhor'' were produced by well known artists, including artist Carlos Scliar and

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. The latter also served as the main caricaturist of the magazine. Regular contributors were

Paulo Francis Paulo Francis (Rio de Janeiro, September 2, 1930 – New York City, February 4, 1997) was a Brazilian journalist, political pundit, novelist and critic. Francis became prominent in modern Brazilian journalism through his controversial critiqu ...

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, Luiz Lobo,

Clarice Lispector Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector ( uk, Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор); December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works exp ...

Otto Lara Resende Otto Lara Resende (1 May 1922 – 28 December 1992) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. Biography Resende began teaching French at age fourteen and at eighteen years old began working as a journalist in the Belo Horizonte newspaper ''O Diár ...

Carlos Heitor Cony Carlos Heitor Cony (March 14, 1926 – January 5, 2018) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Letras). Cony viewed himself as center-leftist and faced perse ...

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, Rubem Braga

Jorge Amado Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in ...

and

Carlos Drummond de Andrade Carlos Drummond de Andrade () (October 31, 1902 – August 17, 1987) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. He has become something of a national cultural symbol in Brazil, where his wi ...

. ''Senhors target audience was the Brazilian upper-classes with higher levels of education. The magazine featured articles concerning literature,

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, society and politics. The

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by Jorge Amado, ''

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell ''The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell'' (''A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d'Água'') is a 1959 Brazilian Modernist literature, modernist novella by Jorge Amado. It was first published in the Brazilian magazine ''Senhor (magazine), Senhor''. I ...

'', was first published in the inauguration issue of ''Senhor'', which was later published as a book. Various stories of Clarice Lispector were also first published in the magazine, including ''Uma grama de radium-Mineirinho'' in 1962. Two years later the story was published in her book named ''A Legião Estrangeira''. ''Senhor'' folded with the January 1964 issue after producing a total of 59 issues.

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