Adelmar Tavares Explained

Adelmar Tavares
Office1:	President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Term1:	1948
Birth Name:	Adelmar Tavares da Silva
Birth Date:	16 February 1888
Birth Place:	Recife, Brazil
Death Place:	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Adelmar Tavares da Silva (Recife, February 16, 1888 – June 20, 1963 Rio de Janeiro) was a lawyer, magistrate, jurist, professor and poet from Recife. He was a member of Brazilian Societies devoted to criminology and law. As a poet he was respected with several of his poems becoming songs. In 1948 he became President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.^{[1] [2]}

Partial bibliography

• Luz dos meus olhos, Myriam - poetry (1912)
• A poesia das violas - poetry (1921)
• Noite cheia de estrelas - poetry (1925)
• A linda mentira - prose (1926)
• O caminho enluarado - poetry (1932)
• A luz do altar - poetry (1934)

External links

• Academia (In Portuguese)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Adelmar Tavares . 2024-02-16 . Academia Brasileira de Letras . pt-br.
2. Book: Tinhorão, José Ramos . A música popular no romance brasileiro . 1992 . Editora 34 . 978-85-7326-230-8 . 13 . pt-BR.