Ivan Junqueira

Ivan Junqueira was a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.

He was a four-time winner of the Jabuti Prize: He also received the National Poetry Prize for A rainha arcaica and the Premio Assis Chateaubriand Prize for the book of essays À sombra de Orfeu.

Junqueira occupied chair number 37 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

He died in 2014 at the age of 79.

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