Cyro Versiani dos Anjos (October 5, 1906 – August 4, 1994) was a Brazilian journalist, and writer.
He was born in
Montes Claros
Montes Claros is a Municipalities of Brazil, Brazilian municipality located in the northern region of the Federative units of Brazil, state of Minas Gerais. Situated north of the state capital, Belo Horizonte, it lies approximately away. The mun ...
, in the state of
Minas Gerais
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. In 1923, he went to
Belo Horizonte
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, where he studied law at
Federal University of Minas Gerais
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and graduated in 1932. He died in
Rio de Janeiro
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, state of
Rio de Janeiro
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, aged 87.
Bibliography
* O Amauense Belmiro,
novel
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1937, translated and published in Mexico and Italy
* Montanha, 1950
* Abdias,
novel
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, 1945
* A Criação Literária,
essay
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, 1959
* Montanha,
novel
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, 1956
* Poemas Coronarianos,
poetry
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, 1964
* Explorações no Tempo,1952
* A Menina do Sobrado, 1979
External links
Biography of Cyro dos AnjosCyro dos Anjosrecorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on March 24, 1977
1906 births
1994 deaths
Brazilian male poets
20th-century Brazilian poets
20th-century Brazilian male writers
People from Montes Claros
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