Alexei Bueno

Alexei Bueno (April 26, 1963 – June 27, 2026) was a Brazilian poet from Rio de Janeiro.

Life and career Alexei Bueno was born on April 26, 1963.

As curator, he organized more than eighty exhibitions on fine arts or on the history of literature. As editor, he published many selected or complete works of great classics of the Portuguese language, such as Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Almada Negreiros, Gonçalves Dias, Álvares de Azevedo, Machado de Assis, Cruz e Sousa, Olavo Bilac, Alphonsus de Guimaraens, Augusto dos Anjos (a complete critical edition), and Vinicius de Moraes.

He was, between 1999 and 2002, director of the (INEPAC). He was also a member of PEN Club of Brazil.

Bueno died from cancer in Rio de Janeiro, on June 27, 2026, at the age of 63.

Works As escadas da torre (The stairs of the tower), 1984 Poemas gregos (Greek poems), 1985 Livro de haicais (Book of haikais), 1989 A decomposição de J. S. Bach (The decomposition of J. S. Bach), 1989 Lucernário (Lucernarium), 1993 Grandes poemas do Romantismo brasileiro (Great poems of the Brazilian Romanticism), 1994 A via estreita (The narrow way), 1995 – Alphonsus de Guimaraens Prize, by the National Library, and APCA Prize A juventude dos deuses (The youngness of the gods), 1996 Entusiasmo (Enthusiasm), 1997 Poemas reunidos (Collected poems), 1998 – Fernando Pessoa Prize Em sonho (In dream), 1999 Antologia da poesia portuguesa contemporânea, um panorama, (Anthology of the contemporary Portuguese poetry, a survey), with Alberto da Costa e Silva, 1999 Os resistentes (The insurgents), 2001 Gamboa (2002), in the collection Cantos do Rio (Places of Rio) O patrimônio construído (The building heritage), 2002, with Augusto Carlos da Silva Teles and Lauro Cavalcanti – Jabuti Prize La poésie romantique brésilienne, 2002 Glauber Rocha, mais fortes são os poderes do povo! (Glauber Rocha, strongest are the powers of the people!), 2003 Poesia reunida (Collected poetry), 2003 – Jabuti Prize, ABL Prize O Brasil do século XIX na Coleção Fadel (The 19th Century Brazil in the Fadel Collection), 2004 Antologia pornográfica (Pornographic anthology), 2004 A árvore seca (The dry tree), 2006 O Nordeste e a epopeia nacional (The Northeast and the national epic), 2006 – Aula Magna at the Rio Grande do Norte's University Uma história da poesia brasileira (A history of Brazilian poetry), 2007 As desaparições (The disappearances), 2009 Sergio Telles, caminhos da cor (Sergio Telles, the paths of colour), 2009 João Tarcísio Bueno, o herói de Abetaia (João Tarcísio Bueno, the hero of Abetaia), 2010 Lixo extraordinário (Waste Land), with Vik Muniz, 2010 O universo de Francisco Brennand ( The universe of Francisco Brennand), 2011 Machado, Euclides & outros monstros (Machado, Euclides & other monsters), 2012 Cinco séculos de poesia: poemas traduzidos (Five centuries of Poetry: translated poems), 2013 São Luís, 400 anos, Patrimônio da Humanidade (São Luís, 400 years, Humanity Heritage), 2013 Poesia completa (Complete poems), 2013 Palácios da Borracha, arquitetura da Belle Époque amazônica (The rubber palaces, architecture from the Amazonian Belle Époque), 2014 Os monumentos do Rio de Janeiro, inventário 2015 (The Rio de Janeiro monuments, 2015 inventory), 2015 Alcoofilia, 5.000 anos de declarações de amor à bebida ('Alcohophilia, 5,000 years of love declarations to liquor), 2015 Rio Belle Époque, álbum de imagens (Río Belle Époque, pictorial album), 2015 Anamnese (Anamnese), 2016 Desaparições (Disappearances), a Portuguese anthology O poste (The stake), drama in two acts, 2018. Les résistants, full French translation of the poem, by Didier Lamaison, in Courage! Dix variations sur le courage et un chant de résistance. (2020) Decálogo indigno para os mortos de 2020 (Unworthy decalogue for the dead of 2020, poems about coronavirus pandemic), 2020 O Sono dos Humildes (The sleep of the humble, poems), 2021 – Candango Literature Prize and the National Library's Alphonsus de Guimaraens Prize A escravidão na poesia brasileira: Do século XVII ao XXI (Slavery in Brazilian Poetry: From the 17th to the 21st Century, anthology of poems about slavery in Brazil), 2022 A noite assediada (The haunted night, poems in prose), 2022 Rio de Janeiro en couleurs et en relief: À Travers Les Photos Du Voyage En Amerique Du Sud D'Albert Kahn (Rio de Janeiro in color and relief: Through Photos from Albert Kahn's South American Trip, French edition), 2022, with Delphine Allannic, Laurent Vidal and Mélanie Moreau Poesia completa e traduzida (Complete original and translated poems), 2023 Bibliografia crítica da Lapa (Critical bibliography of Lapa), 2023 Cândido Torres Guimarães: Um combatente brasileiro na Primeira Grande Guerra (Cândido Torres Guimarães: A Brazilian fighter in the First World War), 2023. Camões: Em nós, por nós (Camões: In us, for us, commemorative poem for the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Portuguese epic poet Camões) – 2024 Naquele Remoto Agora (In That Remote Now, poems), 2024