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SÉRGIO
DE CASTRO PINTO
Born
in Pessoa in 1947, Sérgio de Castro Pinto has published four books
of poems. In 1994, João Batista B. de Brito, now a literary critic
and professor at the University of Paraíba, defended his dissertation
"Symbol and Image in Castro Pinto," the first dissertation presented
to the Department of Humanities of the Federal University of Paraíba.
The following authors have also written about Castro Pinto's work: Virginius
da Gama e Melo, Carlos Romero, Nelly Novaes Coelho, Malcolm Silverman,
Gilberto Mendonça Teles, Temístocles Linhares, Walter Galvão,
Hildeberto Barbosa Filho, Reynaldo Valinho Alvarez, Alfredo Margarido,
Fernando Mendes Viana, Fernando Py, Sônia Coutinho, Wellington Aguiar,
Lucia Helena, Luzilá Gonçalves Ferreira, José Louzeiro,
Lago Burnett, Othon Moacyr Garcia, Henrique L. Alves, Carlos Reis and
Mauro Gama.In 1996, the National Association of Graduate Studies and Literary
and Linguistic Investigation, during Professor Sônia Maria Van Dijck
Lima's tenure as Chair, paid considerable homage to the poet, publishing
the book "With Four Hands," that includes close to twenty poems
written by this Paraiban author who, by 2002, will have been writing poetry
for 35 years.
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