Defunct Gerardo Majella Mello Mourão (January 8, 1917 – March 9, 2007) was a Brazilian poet, fictionist, politician, journalist, translator, essayist and biographer, considered a key figure in both the national and all Lusophone literature.
[1] Mello Mourão was widely awarded, competing for the Nobel Prize in Literature by nomination from The State University of New York.
His most famous works are Invention of the Sea, with which he won the Jabuti Prize, and the trilogy Os Peãs.
Who achieved it was the poet of The Country of the Moors".Mourão was praised and recognized by the likes of Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Houaiss, Nélida Piñon, Alfredo Bosi, Dora Ferreira da Silva, Wilson Martins and Antônio Cândido.
Already in the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship, he was taken to the inquiry and tortured, this time on charges of contributing to the Communists.