• Source: Dalton Trevisan

      • Dalton Jérson Trevisan (14 June 1925 – 9 December 2024) was a Brazilian author of short stories. He was described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas". Trevisan won the 2012 Prémio Camões, the leading Portuguese-language literary prize, valued at €100,000.


      Life and work


      Trevisan's short stories were inspired in the daily life of his home city of Curitiba, though featuring characters and situations of universal meaning. He also experimented with prose Haiku. Trevisan's stories are often based on dialogue, using a popular language, and underline the torturing and absurd aspects of everyday life. Often brutal, his narratives can be considered the reverse of moral tales, exposing a culture of perversion and violence underlying middle-class hypocrisy.
      As of 2024, only two of his books have been translated into English, Novels Not at All Exemplary and The Vampire of Curitiba, both in 1972 by translator Gregory Rabassa.
      His reclusive behavior, added to his longevity and the content of his work, earned him the nickname "The Vampire of Curitiba".
      He graduated from the Federal University of Paraná in legal studies but seldom worked in the law profession.
      Trevisan died in Curitiba on 9 December 2024, at the age of 99.


      Joaquim


      Trevisan was the editor of a magazine called Joaquim (Portuguese: Revista Joaquim), which put Paraná on the map of Brazilian literary discussions in the 1940s. The magazine had a total of 21 issues and circulated between April 1946 and December 1948. Joaquim was responsible for the first publication in Portuguese of texts by T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, Louis Aragon, Tristan Tzara, García Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, André Gide, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The sporadic contributors to the magazine included Vinícius de Moraes, Carlos Drummond, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, and Antônio Cândido. The name "Joaquim" was chosen as a common, proximate and universal name in Brazil.
      Joaquim's pages displayed original artwork by plastic artists such as Candido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Guido Viaro, and Poty Lazzarotto. Lazzarotto remained a great editorial partner of Trevisan over the following decades.


      Works




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      External links


      Dalton Trevisan at IMDb
      Projeto Releitura Archived 1 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
      Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story
      The Rise of Modern Literature in Southern Brazil Archived 22 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine

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