Guilherme de Almeida

Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida ( born July 24, 1890 in Campinas, † July 11, 1969 ) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, poet and translator.

Born as the son of a lawyer Estevam de Almeida from Campinas, Brazil, he attended the school Culto à Ciência, the São Bento school and the school Senhora do Carmo. He completed his law studies as a lawyer.

He wrote for the daily newspaper OESP, founded the newspaper Journal de São Paulo and worked as a translator for English, French and Greek.

Almeida was one of the first modernists, who was taken in 1930 as a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro.

Works

• Messidor: Nós. A dança the horas. Suave colheita. Martins, São Paulo 1964. Poem band, Portuguese
• Meus versos corn queridos. Edições de Ouro, Rio de Janeiro 1967. Portuguese
• Os sonetos. Martins, São Paulo, 1968. Portuguese