Jamil Almansur Haddad

Jamil Almansur Haddad (13 October 1914 – 4 May 1988) was a Brazilian critic, essayist, poet, historian, playwright, anthologist and translator.

Biography

Jamil Almansur Haddad was born in São Paulo. He graduated in Medicine in 1938 and became director of the Culture Department of the São Paulo Medical Association. He was president of the Castro Alves House. He was married to the writer Helena Silveira.

A poet in the Generation of '45, he was a contributor to several São Paulo newspapers. He took part in the First Brazilian Writers' Congress, which began on 22 January 1945 at the Municipal Theatre in São Paulo. The Congress was a demonstration by Brazilian writers against the lack of freedom of expression during the Getúlio Vargas dictatorship and contributed to aggravating the Estado Novo crisis.

Works

Major publications

• Alkamar, a minha amante (1935; poetry)
• Orações Negras (1939; poetry)
• Introdução às Poesias de Gonçalves Dias (1942)
• Orações roxas, novas orações negras, orações vermelhas (1943)
• Cântico dos Cânticos (1944)
• Romantismo brasileiro e as sociedades secretas do tempo (1945)
• História Poética do Brasil (1945)
• O Amor no Pensamento Humano (1947)
• A lua do remorso (1951)
• Revisão de Castro Alves (1953)
• As obras-primas da poesia religiosa brasileira (1954)
• Romanceiro cubano (1959)
• Álvares de Azevedo, a Maçonaria e a Dança (1960)
• Revolução Cubana e Revolução Brasileira (1961)
• Literatura e mistificação (1967)
• Aviso aos Navegantes ou a Bala Adormecida no Bosque (1980; poetry)
• O que é islamismo? (1981)

References

• Lacaz, Carlos da Silva; Mazzierri, Berta Ricardo de (1995). A Faculdade de Medicina e a USP. São Paulo: Edusp, pp. 133–36.
• Queiroz, Christina Stephano de (2022). A Lua do Oriente e Outras Luas: Biografia e Seleção de Poemas de Jamil Almansur Haddad. Cotia, SP: Ateliê Editorial.

External links

• Jamil Almansur Haddad