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Domício Proença Filho is a Brazilian academic and former president of theBrazilian Academy of Letters. He was born inRio de Janeiro, on January 25, 1936, to Maria de Lourdes Proença and Domício Proença. He attended primary school at Escola Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, onPaquetá Island, where he lived during his childhood and adolescence. He then attended junior high school at Colégio Pedro II, a boarding school. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Philosophy of theUniversity of Brazil (1957), with a specialization course in Spanish Language and Literature (1958). He holds a PhD in Literature. He has taught at numerous institutions at home and abroad, among them theFederal University of Rio de Janeiro and theUniversidade Federal Fluminense. He taught at the latter for more than three decades and became anEmeritus Professor in 2002.[1]
He is the fifth occupant of Chair 28 of theBrazilian Academy of Letters, to which he was elected on March 23, 2006 succeedingOscar Dias Corrêa. He was received on July 28, 2006 by AcademicEvanildo Bechara. He was also elected President of ABL for the 2016 financial year.
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