Mario Chamie | One of the most important Brazilian critics and poets
Mario Chamie was born in 1933 graduated in Law from University of São Paulo.
He founded the "Praxis Poetry" - one of the essential literary vanguard
movements of the twentieth century in Brazil - with his poem Lavra Lavra.
Mario Chamie, a quick, frightening and clever polemist, has been one of the
most incisive dissidents of the concrete poetry, and, indeed, of almost all
recent poetry movements. He received an invitation from the Ministry of
External Relations of Brazil to give speeches in conferences about Brazilian
culture in institutions and centers of study in Europe and the Middle East.
He was professor and lector in universities of Harvard, New York, Princeton
and Wisconsin, and Culture Municipal Secretary, creating the Municipal
Pinacotheca of São Paulo", the Museum of the City of São Paulo and has been
one of the authors and responsible for the São Paulo Cultural Center. An
example of his poetry:
Rewarded, respected, studied and adored, Mario Chamie is member of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he gives conferences, and is professor
of Communication at the "Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing"
Marketing and Advertising School in São Paulo. He is the father of Lina
Chamie, the movie director who recently directed "A Via Láctea" with Marco
Ricca and Alice Braga.