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| Born | September 26, 1936 Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Silviano Santiago (born 29 September 1936) is a Brazilian writer, literary critic, essayist and scholar. [1]
Silviano Santiago | |
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| Born | September 26, 1936 Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Silviano Santiago (born 29 September 1936) is a Brazilian writer, literary critic, essayist and scholar. [1]
Santiago was born in the city of Formiga. At the age of ten, he moved to Belo Horizonte. In 1954, he began writing for a film magazine and helped to idealize and publish the magazine Complemento. He got a degree in Neolatin languages at the Federal University of Minas Gerais [2]
Santiago moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1961, where specialized in French literature, which will lead him to a doctorate at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. [3]
He applied as an instructor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque from 1962 to 1964. In 1969, he published in an anthology of Brazilian literature in New York.
Santiago taught at the Rutgers, Toronto, New York, Buffalo and Indiana universities. In Brazil, he was a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and at the Fluminense Federal University.
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