Background
Barros was born in Cuiabá, and is regarded by critics as one of the great names of contemporary Brazilian poetry, and by many authors he has been considered the greatest living poet from Brazil.
Barros was born in Cuiabá, and is regarded by critics as one of the great names of contemporary Brazilian poetry, and by many authors he has been considered the greatest living poet from Brazil.
The poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade recognized Manoel de Barros as the biggest poet of Brazil. In 1998 the poet was rewarded with the "National prize of Literature of the Ministry of the Culture from Brazil", for the set of the work. He died, aged 97, in Campo Grande.
German
1996—Das Buch der Unwissenheiten
French
2003—Louisiana Parole sans Limites.
Une Didactique de lInvention
Spanish
2002 - Todo lo que no invento es falso
2005 - Riba del dessemblat
English
2010 - Birds for a Demolition (translated by Idra Novey, Carnegie Mellon University Press).
