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Ferreira Gullar

Died in 2016

José de Ribamar Ferreira, known as Ferreira Gullar, was born on 10 September 1930 in São Luís, in Maranhão, and settled in the early fifties in Rio, where he worked as a journalist. At first close to concrete poetry, he broke with its São Paulo proponents and led the neo-concrete group with Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica. A communist, he was president of the Popular Centre of Culture at the time of the 1964 coup. Arrested, he lived in exile from 1971 to 1977, in Moscow, Santiago, Lima and Buenos Aires according to the Imprensa Nacional, in Paris first according to eBiografia. Camões Prize winner in 2010, he died in Rio on 4 December 2016.

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