Wilson Martins (literary critic)

Wilson Martins (March 3, 1921 – January 30, 2010) was a Brazilian literary critic, cultural historian, and journalist. He is best known for the monumental series História da Inteligência Brasileira, a narrative account of Brazil's intellectual and literary history. Hr was a regular contributor for the Jornal do Brasil and O Estado de S.Paulo.^[1]

He graduated from the Universidade Federal do Paraná and taught at New York University from 1965 to 1991. In 2002, the Academia Brasileira de Letras awarded him the Prêmio Machado de Assis for his body of work.

His major works include:

• O Modernismo (1965, 5ª ed. 1977) - tr. Jack Tomlins (1971), The modernist idea: a critical survey of Brazilian writing in the twentieth century, New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-0293-7 reviewed at [1]
• História da Inteligência Brasileira - 7 volumes
• A Crítica Literária no Brasil - 2 volumes

• Bio details, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro - in Portuguese
• Bio details, Revista de Cultura - in Portuguese

• Sanches Neto, M. (1997). Wilson Martins. Editora UFPR. ISBN 85-7335-014-8 - in Portuguese
• (2001). Mestre da crítica: edição commemorativa dos 80 anos do crítico literario Wilson Martins, Professor Emérito da Universidade de Nova Iorque. Imprensa Oficial do Paraná. ISBN 85-7475-032-8 - in Portuguese