Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade was born on 31 October 1902 in Itabira do Mato Dentro, in Minas Gerais. A pharmacy graduate in Belo Horizonte, he wrote from 1921 for the Diário de Minas. Chief of staff to the Minister of Education Gustavo Capanema, he left that post in 1945 and then moved closer to the Communist Party, according to a study published in São Paulo. A civil servant for nearly thirty-five years according to Toda Matéria, he then wrote columns in the Rio press. He died in Rio on 17 August 1987, a few days after his daughter, the columnist Maria Julieta.

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• PoetryA rosa do povoCarlos Drummond de Andrade · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature