Dominique Braga

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Domingos de Figueiredo Braga (13 May 1892 – 15 April 1975), better known as Dominique Braga, was a Brazilian translator, novelist, poet and sports writer. Close to the pacifist movement and the futurists, he also devoted himself to literary, theatrical and musical criticism.

Career overview

All his literary career was made in Paris. Literary critic and literary director of Europe Nouvelle, music critic of Le Monde Nouveau, editor of Europe for several years, literary director of Editions Rieder, director of the collection "La Grande Fable" at Librairie Plon, he collaborated with many newspapers and magazines and with the French radio (Raio-Paris and Paris-Mondial) In 1929, he was appointed head of the Literary Section of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations, a position he held until 1940.

Works

• 5.000 (1924; novel)
• Quinze Hommes à Tveckenham (1926)
• Drapeau (1928)
• Ébauche et Premiers Élements d'un Musée de Littérature (1938)
• Lignes d'Avant(s) et Lignes d'Arrivée (2015; articles)

References

• Thomas Bauer, "Dominique Braga's Literary Stride." In: Pour le Sport: Physical Culture in French and Francophone Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021.
• Leighton Hodson, ed., Marcel Proust: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 2008.