Tyrteu Rocha Vianna (November 28, 1898 – September 21, 1963) was a Brazilian poet avant-garde and pioneer amateur radio,[1] and large landowner of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.
He was born in São Francisco de Assis, Rio Grande do Sul, a small isolated town where he lived most of his life; despite this, has been regarded by critics as one of the most gifted or the most modernist poet of the early twentieth century in Rio Grande do Sul.[2]
Had influence of Futurism mostly, but also the Manifesto Antropófago and Cubism. Has just published a book,[3] and was author that has been little known and little appreciated by his countrymen and contemporaries. He died in Alegrete, aged 64.
References edit
- ^ Brazil: Amateur Radio History - First Operators. Radioamador.com. Page viewed on 12.11.2011.
- ^ Schüler, Donaldo. Poesia Modernista no RGS, Porto Alegre, Ed. Movimento, 1982.
- ^ Tyrteu Rocha Vianna. Saco de Viagem 1st ed. 1928 (Traveling-bag, 1928). Organization of the 2nd ed. / Critical study and notes by Marcon, Italico. Published 1993 by the State Institute of the Book, EDIPUCRS in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Written in Portuguese.
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