About Ivan Junqueira
Lived 1934 – 2014 (aged 79). Ivan Junqueira was a Brazilian journalist, writer, poet and literary critic.
Ivan Junqueira was a Brazilian poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was a four-time winner of the Jabuti Prize: in 1995, for the book of poems A consecração dos osso in 2005, for his translation of the complete poetry of TS Eliot, published in a bilingual edition in 2008, for the book of poems O outro lado in 2008 in 2010, for the essay Cinzas do espólio
He also received the National Poetry Prize for A rainha arcaica and the Premio Assis Chateaubriand Prize for the book of essays À sombra de Orfeu.
Junqueira occupied chair number 37 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He died in 2014 at the age of 79.
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Who was Ivan Junqueira?
Brazilian journalist and poet (1934-2014)
When was Ivan Junqueira born?
Ivan Junqueira was born on 3 November 1934 in Rio de Janeiro.
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Ivan Junqueira died on 3 July 2014 in Rio de Janeiro.
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Ivan Junqueira was a journalist, writer, poet and literary critic.
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Ivan Junqueira was Brazilian.
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