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Cecília Meireles

1901 - 1964

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Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (7 November 1901 – 9 November 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil, though she objected to the word poetess because of gender discrimination. She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, visiting the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cecília Meireles has received more than 80,956 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cecília Meireles is the 12,886th most popular politician, the 421st most popular biography from Brazil and the 60th most popular Brazilian Politician.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.46

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cecília Meireles ranks 12,886 out of 15,577Before her are Olaf Guthfrithson, Andrey Toshev, Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou, Hermann von Stein, Ila-kabkabu, and Yasmah-Adad. After her are Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Artūras Paulauskas, Hrvoje Horvat, Chris Hani, Klaus von Dohnanyi, and Miro, Count of Barcelona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Cecília Meireles ranks 206Before her are Paul Verhoeven, Otto Heckmann, Raymond Firth, Agostinho Fortes Filho, Haj Ali Razmara, and Jan de Quay. After her are Peter van de Kamp, Hugo Haas, Mark Donskoy, Manly P. Hall, Casiano Chavarría, and Gaston Waringhien. Among people deceased in 1964, Cecília Meireles ranks 126Before her are Peter Romanovsky, Ólafur Thors, Pentti Eskola, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Jan de Vries, and Seán O'Casey. After her are Reg Parnell, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Bodil Ipsen, Maurice Farman, Agnes Miegel, and Erik Malmberg.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Cecília Meireles ranks 421 out of 2,067Before her are Gilmar Rinaldi (1959), Fausto dos Santos (1905), Dadá Maravilha (1946), Francisco Rodrigues (1925), Zé Sérgio (1957), and Agostinho Fortes Filho (1901). After her are Edmílson (1976), Alex (1977), Gonçalves Dias (1823), Giba (1976), Laura Cardoso (1927), and Marina Silva (1958).

Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Cecília Meireles ranks 60Before her are Hamilton Mourão (1953), Clodovil Hernandes (1937), Júlio Prestes (1882), Carlos María de Alvear (1789), José Serra (1942), and Augusto Tasso Fragoso (1869). After her are Marina Silva (1958), Paulo Maluf (1931), Leonel Brizola (1922), Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald (1905), Ricardo Teixeira (1947), and Pedro Diniz (1970).