Brazilian writer and journalist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most controversial figures in the country's press. He started working as a theater actor, then moving on to director and critic. From an erudite culture, even though she had never attended a higher education course, she started to write articles about culture and politics and a master's degree with critic Eric Bentley at Columbia University in Nova York.
Leftist and Trotskyist, he began writing reviews of theater in the newspaper, then articles on culture. In the 1960s, he edited Senhor magazine, the Correio da Manhã's section on culture and varieties, and wrote for others such as Última Hora, O Pasquim and Folha de S. Paulo, and in Realidade magazine. He was one of the founders of the left-wing newspaper O Pasquim (1969). In the next two years he was arrested 4 times and was incarcerated for a total of 8 months. He moved to the USA (1970) where he survived in New York with a grant from the Ford Foundation and the texts he wrote and sent to Brazilian newspapers.
He changed his political stance, declaring himself an enlightened conservative. Invited (1977) by Cláudio Abramo, he became a correspondent for Folha de São Paulo. In the next decade he went to TV and the man who faced prisons for being a leftist turned in favor of capitalism. Later (1990) he began writing the column Diário da Corte for O Estado de São Paulo and (1992) for O Globo. He participated in Jornal da Globo and in the debate program Manhattan Connection, on the GNT channel, when he died at age 66 in his apartment in New York, struck by a heart attack, and was buried in Rio de January.
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