Manuel Bandeira

Manuel Bandeira was born on 19 April 1886 in Recife and did his secondary studies at the Pedro II school in Rio. He entered the Polytechnic School of São Paulo in 1903 to become an architect, but had to give it up because of tuberculosis, which he went to treat in 1913 at the Clavadel sanatorium in Switzerland, where he met Paul Éluard according to eBiografia. A professor of literature at the Pedro II school from 1938, then of Spanish American literature at the National Faculty of Philosophy in 1943, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1940. He died in Rio on 13 October 1968.

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• PoetryLibertinagemManuel Bandeira · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature