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Wilson Martins (March 3, 1921 in São Paulo – January 30, 2010)[1] was a Brazilian literary critic and cultural historian who was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo.

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He graduated from the Universidade Federal do Paraná and taught at New York University from 1965 to 1991. In 2002, the Academia Brasileira de Letras awarded him the Prêmio Machado de Assis for his lifetime's work.

Works

His major works include:

• O Modernismo (1965, 5ª ed. 1977) - tr. Jack Tomlins (1971), The modernist idea: a critical survey of Brazilian writing in the twentieth century, New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-0293-7 reviewed at
• História da Inteligência Brasileira - 7 volumes
• A Crítica Literária no Brasil - 2 volumes

Further reading

• Sanches Neto, M. (1997). Wilson Martins. Editora UFPR. ISBN 85-7335-014-8 - in Portuguese
• (2001). Mestre da crítica: edição commemorativa dos 80 anos do crítico literario Wilson Martins, Professor Emérito da Universidade de Nova Iorque. Imprensa Oficial do Paraná. ISBN 85-7475-032-8 - in Portuguese

References

External links

• Bio details, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro - in Portuguese
• Bio details, Revista de Cultura - in Portuguese

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