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UOL Educação. __Poeta Brasileiro: Manuel Bandeira.__ Available in: <[]>

In order to write an essay about an author, and specially about the connection between his life and work, it’s essential to read and analyze his biography. That’s what this text is about, a brief but complete biography of Manuel Bandeira.

Manuel Bandeira has a pretty sad and tragedy life, he was born in 1886, in Recife. With only 18 years old, he abandoned the studies because of the tuberculosis and between 1916 and 1920, he lost his mother, sister and father. He lived alo solitarily and never married. Challenging medicine, he died with 82 years, of cardiac arrest and not of tuberculosis, but the disease followed him for almost his entire life and had great influence in his work as a writer. Bandeira was a very important writer in Brazilian literature, known as one of the precursors and most remarkable of the Brazilian modernism.