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Álvaro de Barros Lins | |
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 Álvaro Lins in 1964. | |
| Born | December 14, 1912 |
| Died | June 4, 1970(1970-06-04) (aged 57) |
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| Spouse | Heloísa Ramos Lins |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent | Pedro Alexandrino Lins (father) |
Álvaro de Barros Lins (December 14, 1912 – June 4, 1970) was a Brazilian journalist, professor, literary critic and lawyer.
Lins was married to Heloísa Ramos Lins, with whom he had two children.
The son of Pedro Alexandrino Lins and Francisca de Barros Lins, Álvaro Lins took the primary course in his hometown, moving to attend high school at Salesian College and Padre Félix Gymnasium, both inRecife. There he entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Recife in 1931, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1935. At the age of 20, as a representative of the Student Directory, Lins produced his first work, calledThe university as a School of Public Men. From 1932 to 1940, he was also a professor of general geography and history of civilization in several schools in the city.
In October 1934, invited by the then intervenor and later governor of Pernambuco, Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti, Lins assumed the position of Secretary of the State Government. He was part, in 1936, of the plate of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) of Pernambuco, to run for a seat in the House of Representatives. However, the coup that established theEstado Novo interrupted the elections and Lins left the Secretariat of State in November 1937 and put his political ambitions on hold.
From there, he became a print journalist, working atDiário da Manhã of Pernambuco from 1937 to 1940, where he was editor and director. Moving to Rio de Janeiro, he began to make literary criticism, a genre that gave him national fame. There, he was a journalist forDiário de Notícias,Diários Associados between 1939 and 1940, and editor-in-chief ofCorreio da Manhã from 1940 to 1956. In 1952, he left for Portugal to teach Brazilian studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of theUniversity of Lisbon. There is also collaboration of his authorship in the Luso-Brazilian magazine Atlântico.[1]
Returning to Brazil in August 1954 because of the crisis triggered by the suicide ofGetúlio Vargas, he resumed journalism and the chair of Brazilian Literature atColégio Pedro II.
On April 5, 1955, at the age of 42, he was unanimously elected to become the fourth occupant of chair 17 of theBrazilian Academy of Letters, vacant after the death of Edgar Roquette-Pinto, being received by the academic João Neves da Fontoura on July 7, 1956.
Lins was Brazilian ambassador to Portugal from November 1956 to October 1959. He was the president of the 1st Inter-American Conference of Amnesty for Exiles and Political Prisoners of Spain and Portugal, based at the São Paulo Law School in 1960, and director of the literary supplement of the Daily News between March 1961 and June 1964. In 1962, he headed the Brazilian delegation to theWorld Peace Congress, held inMoscow. Retiring from the newspaper in 1964, Álvaro Lins devoted his last years to writing books. On 30 December 1957, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ of Portugal and on 28 December 1994 he was awarded a posthumous title with the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty of Portugal.[2]
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