Adonias Aguiar Filho

Adonias Aguiar Filho was born on the 27^th November 1915; he died on the 2^nd August 1990. He was a Brazilian writer and a novelist. He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

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Life

Aguiar Filho was born in the city of Itajuípe, Brazil; he was the son of Adonias Aguiar and Rachel Bastos de Aguiar.

Two years after his high school in the year 1936, Aguiar Filho moved from the southern part of the city of Bahia to the city of Rio de Janeiro, the capital city of the country at that time, and it was there that he continued his career as a journalist of the country, which he previously began in Salvador. He worked in a popular newspaper of the country called Correio da Manhã. He also worked as a critic for a number of papers in the country.

Aguiar Filho ran the book publishing company called A Noite between the year 1946 and the year 1950. He was also the director of the the Serviço Nacional de Teatro in the year 1954 and the director of the Biblioteca Nacional from the year 1961 to the year 1971, and at the same time, he was working at the Agência Nacional which was at the Ministério da Justiça.

Aguiar Filho was elected to be the vice-president of the Associação Brasileira de Imprensa in the year 1966 and in the following year, he was elected to be a member of the Conselho Federal de Cultura. He was also re-elected in the year 1969, in the year 1971 and in 1973. Aguiar Filho was the presidente of the Associação Brasileira de Imprensa in the year 1972 and also the president of the Conselho Federal de Cultura from 1977 to 1990, which was when he died. As a writer, Aguiar Filho looked for inspiration for his work called zona cacaueira.

Aguiar Filho was honored with the 21^st chair at the Academy of Letters of the country at the age of 53 on the 23^rd May 1969. The title was handed to him by Jorge Amado, a writer from Bahia also. His works has been translated to many languages including English, German, Spanish, French and Slovac.

Aguiar Filho died in Ilhéus, after the death of his wife.

Bibliography

Ø  Renascimento do homem - essay (1937)

Ø  Tasso da Silveira e o tema da poesia eterna - essay (1940)

Ø  Memórias de Lázaro - novel (1952)

Ø  Jornal de um escritor (1954)

Ø  Modernos ficcionistas brasileiros - essay (1958)

Ø  Cornélio Pena - critique (1960)

Ø  Corpo vivo - novel (1962)

Ø  História da Bahia - essay (1963)

Ø  O bloqueio cultural - essay (1964)

Ø  O forte - novel (1965)

Ø  Léguas da promissão - novella (1968)

Ø  O romance brasileiro de crítica - critique (1969)

Ø  Luanda Beira Bahia - novel (1971)

Ø  O romance brasileiro de 30 - critique (1973)

Ø  Uma nota de cem – children’s literature (1973)

Ø  As velhas - novel (1975)

Ø  Fora da pista - children’s literature (1978)

Ø  O Largo da Palma - novella (1981)

Ø  Auto de Ilhéus – theater (1981)

Ø  Noites sem madrugada - novel (1983).

Awards

Ø  Prêmio Paula Brito de crítica literária (Guanabara, 1968), for the book "Léguas da promissão"

Ø  Golfinho de Ouro de Literatura (1968),

Ø  Prêmio PEN Clube do Brasil,

Ø  Prêmio da Fundação Educacional do Paraná (FUNDEPAR)

Ø  Prêmio do Instituto Nacional do Livro (1968–1969)

Ø  Prêmio Brasília de Literatura (1973), from Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal.

Ø  Premio Nacional de Literatura (1975), from Instituto Nacional do Livro, in the category published work (1974–1975), with the romance novel "As velhas", and