Sebastião Nery Explained

Sebastião Nery
Birth Date:8 March 1932
Birth Place:Jaguaquara, Bahia, Brazil
Occupation:Journalist
Nationality:Brazilian

Sebastião Nery is a Brazilian writer and journalist.[1] He was born in Jaguaquara, in the state of Bahia, on March 8, 1932.

Biography

From 1942 to 1950 he studied at the Seminary of Amargosa, Bahia, and at the Central Seminary of Bahia, in Salvador. Having moved to Belo Horizonte, he graduated in philosophy at the University of Minas Gerais in 1954, and began a course in juridical and social sciences, which he completed in 1958 at the Law School in Bahia.

Writing career

He worked as a reporter for O Diário, a morning newspaper linked to the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte; and for various other publications in the late 1950s before founding the weekly newspaper Jornal da Semana in 1959. He continued to write and edit for a range of print and television news outlets through the sixties and seventies.

Political career

In November 1982 and took his place in the Chamber of Deputies in February 1983. He was an presidential candidate Fernando Collor de Mello in 1989. He was then appointed cultural attaché in Rome, 1990–1991, and in Paris, 1993.[2]

Published works

Notes and References

  1. Book: Drummond, Roberto. Hilda Hurricane. registration. 8 March 2016. 2010-09-01. University of Texas Press. 9780292784918. 192–.
  2. Web site: SEBASTIÃO NERY . camara.leg.br . Câmara dos Deputados, Brazil . 18 February 2020.