Lêdo Ivo

Lêdo Ivo
Born 18 February 1924
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Died 23 December 2012 (aged 88)
Seville, Spain
Occupation Poet,novelist,essayist,journalist

Lêdo Ivo (Maceió, 18 February 1924 -Seville, 23 December 2012) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist and journalist.[1][2] He was member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, elected in 1986.[3]

Biography

Lêdo Ivo was born in 1924 in Maceió, capital of Alagoas state in northeastern Brazil. He settled in 1940 in Recife, where he completed his training. In 1943, he moved to Rio de Janeiro to enroll in law school and while working for the literary supplements as a professional journalist. He married Leda Maria Sarmento Ivo de Medeiros (1923-2004), with whom he had three children.

His first book was published in 1944, a collection of poems titled As imaginações. The following year he published Ode e Elegia, which was awarded the Olavo Bilac Prize the Brazilian Academy of Letters and is a turning point in the history of Brazilian poetry. The death of Mário de Andrade in 1945 led to a generational change in Brazilian poetry whose rule was "an invitation to transgression", with the triumph of purely poetical structures.[4] His literary work would be enhanced in the following decades by books of poetry, novels, short stories and essays or reports. Ivo's first novel, As Alianças, which went through several editions and awarded him the Graça Aranha Foundation Prize in 1947. He continued with O Caminho sem Adventura (1948), O sobrinho do General (1964) and Ninho de cobras (published in English as Snake's Nest) (1973), one of his biggest hits, an allegory of totalitarianism of the military dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. His last novel was A morte do Brasil (1984).

In 1949 Ivo spoke at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo in a conference titled The Generation of 1945; in the same year he received a law degree, a profession he never would exercise, preferring to devote himself to journalism. In 1953 he visited several European countries for long periods. In 1963 he spent two months in universities in the USA, by invitation of the Government. In 1986 Ivo was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. In 2009 he was awarded the Premio Casa de Las Américas.

Ledo Ivo was also a translator. He translated into Portuguese works of authors like Albrecht Goes. Jane Austen, Maupassant, Rimbaud and Dostoyevsky.

He published two memoirs, Confissões de um Poeta (1979), which was awarded the prize of the Cultural Foundation of the Federal District, and O Aluno Relapso (1991).

Works

Poetry

Novels

Short Stories

References

  1. ↑ "Lêdo Ivo". New Directions. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Morre escritor e poeta Lêdo Ivo". O Globo (in Portuguese). 23 December 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Lêdo Ivo". Academia Brasileira de Letras. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Barrón, Francho (23 December 2012). "Lêdo Ivo, el poeta de lo cotidiano y lo contemporáneo". El País. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
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