Ivan Junqueira

Brazilian journalist and poet (1934-2014) Date Of Birth : 1934-11-03T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 2014-07-03T00:00:00Z

Ivan Junqueira was a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator. He was a four-time winner of the Jabuti Prize:

in 1995, for the book of poems A consecração dos osso
in 2005, for his translation of the complete poetry of TS Eliot, published in a bilingual edition
in 2008, for the book of poems O outro lado in 2008
in 2010, for the essay Cinzas do espólio
He also received the National Poetry Prize for A rainha arcaica and the Premio Assis Chateaubriand Prize for the book of essays À sombra de Orfeu.
Junqueira occupied chair number 37 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He died in 2014 at the age of 79.

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