- Source: Alvacir Raposo
Alvacir dos Santos Raposo Filho (born January 18, 1950) is a Brazilian physician and writer.
Born in Piauí, Brazil, Raposo moved as a young man to Recife, Pernambuco. He graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in 1974 with a doctorate in Ophthalmology.
Raposo is a professor at UFPE and the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Pernambuco. He is a poet, cand omposer of frevos, having recorded a CD of gender to another physician and composer Luiz Guimaraes.
Professional training
Medical (UFPE);
Master of Ophthalmology (UFPE), with a dissertation on Retinal haemorrhages in newborns;
Doctor of Medicine (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), with a thesis on Variations of intraocular pressure in individuals undergoing testing stationary bike.
Books published
A resistência e a Natividade. Recife: Fundarpe, 1994
A casa do vinho. Recife: Fundarpe, 1994
O galo de metal. Recife: Bagaço, 1995
Rua dos Arcos. Recife: Bagaço, 1996
O discurso do rei. Recife: Fundação de Cultura Cidade do Recife, 1996
Sonetos. Recife: Bagaço, 1999
O território. Recife: Bagaço, 1999
Os tambores. Recife: Bagaço, 1999
O pássaro e a arca. Recife: Bagaço, 2001
Ensaio das lâminas. Recife, 2003
A chama intacta. Recife: Bagaço, 2008
A rosa em chamas. Recife: Bagaço, 2012
A flauta de vidro. Recife: Bagaço, 2014
Discography
Carnaval 2000 - CD frevo jointly with the medical composer Luiz Guimaraes.
Awards
Mauro Mota Prize for Poetry, FUNDARPE, 1992
Mauro Mota Prize for Poetry, FUNDARPE, 1993
Poetry Prize from the Academy of Arts Pernambuco, 1993
Award Ladjane Flag, Diário de Pernambuco, 1994
Award Eugenio Coimbra Junior, City Council Culture of Recife, 1995
Poetry Prize from the Academy of Arts Pernambuco, 1996
Member of literary institutions
Academia Pernambucana de Letras - elected and installed in 2002
Academia de Letras e Artes do Nordeste - having exercised its presidency
Sociedade Brasileira de Médicos Escritores (SOBRAMES-PE) - Socio-holder
Secretary for the biennium 1990-1991
President in 1992-1993
Academia Recifense de Letras
Academia Piauiense de Letras (honorary member)
Bibliography
Google-books - A poesia da Geração 65
