Mário Quintana
Mário Quintana | |
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Mário Quintana in 1966. | |
| Born | July 30, 1906 |
| Died | May 5, 1994 (aged 87) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, translator |
| Years active | 1940 — 1994 |
Mário de Miranda Quintana (July 30, 1906 – May 5, 1994) was a Brazilian writer and translator.
He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time. Quintana also worked as a journalist and translated into Portuguese innumerable books, such as Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.