Paulo Mendes Campos

Paulo Mendes Campos was born on the 28^th February 1922 in Belo Horizonte; he died on the 1^st July 1991 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He was a Brazilian writer and a journalist.

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Biography

Paulo Mendes Campos was born in the state of Minas Gerais, he was the son of a physician and a writer Mario Mendes Campos and D. Maria José de Lima Campos. He started his studies at the state capital and kept it on in Cachoeira do Campo, which was the place a Portuguese priest predicted to him saying, ‘You will still be a writer’. He completed his studies in the city of São João del Rei.

Paulo Mendes Campos started his studies of dentistry, veterinary medicine and law and never finished them, the dreams of being an aviator that he had never come through. At a very young age, Paulo Mendes Campos moved into literary life as a member of the Minas Gerais' generation of the year 1945 together with the following people Fernando Sabino, Otto Lara Resende, Hélio Pellegrino, João Ettiene Filho, Carlos Castello Branco and Murilo Rubião. He was the director of the literary supplement of Folha de Minas in Belo Horizonte and also worked in the construction company of the uncle. He went to the city of Rio de Janeiro in the year 1945 and it was there that he met with Pablo Neruda.

In the city of Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Mendes Campos worked with many newspapers like O Jornal, Correio da Manhã and Diário Carioca. Paulo Mendes Campos worked also as a translator and an editor.

Works

Ø  A palavra escrita (1951)

Ø  Forma e expressão do soneto (1952)

Ø  O cego de Ipanema (1962)

Ø  Supermercado (1976)

Ø  Crônicas Escolhidas (1981)