Trivia

He taught literature abroad, directed the letters department of PUC-Rio, worked as a literary critic, was a chronicler for Jornal do Brasil and the newspaper O Globo.

Son of Jorge Firmino de Sant'Anna and Maria Romano.

In the 1990s, he assumed the presidency of the national library, a period in which he instituted the National Reading Incentive Program, in force until today.

Father of Fabiana (b.1965).

He has taught courses in Germany ( University of Cologne ), the United States ( University of Texas and UCLA), Denmark ( University of Aarhus ), Portugal ( Universidade Nova ) and France ( University of Aix-en-Provence ).

Father with Marina of Alessandra (b.1972).

In 1965 he taught at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), United States , and in 1968 he participated in the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa , which brought together 40 writers from around the world.

He's a writer.

He was a professor of Brazilian literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper.

His wife Marina is a journalist.

He was a columnist for Jornal do Brasil (1984-1988) and for the newspaper O Globo until 2005.

His doctoral thesis addressed an analysis of the poetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade , entitled Drummond, um gauche no tempo , in which he analyzes the concept of gauche throughout his literary work.

In 1961 he graduated in neo-Latin literature from the then Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of UMG, now the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna was a Brazilian poet, essay writer, and professor.

During the years 1990-1996 he was president of the National Library Foundation , where he developed major actions to encourage reading, such as the National Library System.