Jorge de Lima

Jorge de Lima was born in União dos Palmares, in Alagoas, on 23 April 1893 according to Infopédia, in 1895 according to Britannica. A doctor trained in Salvador and Rio, he first practised in Maceió and was a deputy for his state. Settled in Rio, he combined medicine with teaching Brazilian literature there, and was also a municipal councillor according to Infopédia. Having come from Parnassianism to modernism according to Britannica, converted to Catholicism in 1935, he also devoted himself to the visual arts and in 1943 published an album of photomontages. He died in Rio in November 1953.

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• PoetryInvenção de OrfeuJorge de Lima · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature