Mario de Miranda Quintana (Alegrete, July 30, 1906 — Porto Alegre, May 5, 1994), was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time. Quintana also worked as a journalist and translated into Portuguese innumerable books, such as Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Mario Quintana was the son of Celso de Oliveira Quintana de Miranda and Virginia, made the first letters in his hometown, moving to Porto Alegre in 1919, where he studied at the Military College, and published his first literary productions there. Worked for Editora Globo, when it was still an institution eminently the state, and then father in the pharmacy.

Considered the "poet of simple things" with a style marked by irony, by the depth and technical perfection, he worked as a journalist most of his life. Translated over one hundred and thirty works of world literature, including In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and words and Blood, by Giovanni Papini.

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