Mário Quintana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mário Quintana

Brazilian writer

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1906

Place of Birth: Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Date of Death: 05-May-1994

Profession: writer, poet, translator, journalist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Mário de Miranda Quintana (July 30, 1906 – May 5, 1994) was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection.
The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time.
Quintana also worked as a journalist and translated into Portuguese innumerable books, such as Mrs.
Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.