RODRIGO GARCIA LOPES (Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, October 2, 1965) is a poet, novelist, translator, composer, essayist and journalist. He released his first book of poems in 1981, Draft (with Maurício Mendonça, Marcos Amari and Ronaldo Ribeiro). He learned the guitar at the age of 11. His first poems came soon after. His first song, written at the age of 14, the tango “Failed”, won the 1983 Londrina Music Festival. He has a degree in Journalism from the State University of Londrina (PR), a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Arizona State University, with a dissertation on the work of the American writer William S. Burroughs, and a PhD in English Literature from UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina), with a thesis on the American poet and thinker Laura Riding. He was a professor in the Department of Social Communication (Journalism) and Vernacular Literature at the State University of Londrina (PR) and in the Department of English Literature at the Federal University of Rio Grande Foundation (RS). For three years (2006-2008) he was a professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (United States). He has lived in Europe (1984), USA (in three occasions, 1990-1992, 1999-2000 and 2006-2009).
As a journalist, he worked for Folha
de Londrina (1985, where he also edited a literary page,
"Leitura"), Folha de S.Paulo ("Ilustrada", 1988) and
the historic newspaper Nicolau (PR, 1989). In 1996, at A Notícia,
in Joinville, he co-edited the "Anexo" section and the
"Leitura" literary page. In 1997 he published Voices &
Visions: A Panorama of North American Art and Culture Today (Iluminuras),
which features 19 interviews with major figures in North American culture and
literature such as Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, John Cage, William Burroughs,
John Ashbery, Marjorie Perloff, Meredith Monk, Roy Lichtenstein, Laurie
Anderson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nam June Paik, among others. Many of these
interviews were published prominently in Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado
de São Paulo, Jornal Nicolau and A Notícia (Joinville).
From 1997 to 2000 he studied for a
postgraduate degree in Foreign Languages at UFSC in Florianópolis. In 2001, her
poem "Stanzas in Meditation" was included in the best-seller The
Hundred Best Brazilian Poems of the Century, organized by Ítalo Moriconi
(Objetiva). Solarium (1994) was included in the list of the most
important Brazilian poetry books of the 1990s by critic Flora Süssekind (Folha
de S.Paulo, Mais!, 23/7/2000). In 2004, the book was chosen by the Centre
National du Livre (CNL), a French government agency, for the Special Aid
Program in Favor of Brazilian Literature. In 2007, he was selected for an
artist's residency at the McDowell Colony, New Hampshire (USA). In 2012, he was
selected to represent Brazil in the important International Writers Program at
Iowa University (Iowa City, USA), and was also a guest artist at The Hermitage
Artist Colony (Manasota Key, Florida, USA). In 2023, he was selected for The
Foundation Jan Michalski Writer´s Residency Program in September-October 2024 (Montricher,
Switzerland).
In 1995 he curated the exhibition Glances,
the first comprehensive exhibition by the Japanese-London photographer Haruo
Ohara (Londrina International Festival and Curitiba International Photography
Festival). Today he is considered one of the great names in Brazilian
photography. His work was donated to the Moreira Salles Institute in 2008. He
was one of the creators of Londrix - Londrina Literary Festival, in 2005.
From 2002 to 2014 he was co-editor of the art and literature magazine Coyote, considered by Folha de S. Paulo "one of the best Brazilian literary magazines" and by Estadão "one of the longest-running literature and art magazines in the country".
He is the author of the books of poems Solarium
(Iluminuras, 1994), Visibilia (Setteletras, 1996; Travessa dos Editores,
2005), Polivox (Azougue and Atrito Art, 2002) Nomad (Lamparina,
2004), Reality Studio, 7 Letras, 2013), Extraordinary Experiences (Kan,
2014) and The Enigma of the Waves (Iluminuras, 2020, semi-finalist for
the Oceanos prize in 2021). In February 2022 The Enigma of the Waves was
published in Portugal by Officium Lectionis. In June 2023 Kotter Editorial
released Collected Poems (1983-2020), bringing together his seven books
of poetry in their entirety (616 pages, 600 poems). In 2023 Studio Realtà
and L'Enigma delle Onde were published in Italy by Kolibris Edizione, translated
by Chiara de Luca. Collected Poems (1983-2020) will be published by the
same Italian publisher next year, through the National Library's Translation
Support Program.
His work is represented in several
important anthologies of contemporary Brazilian poetry, such as Arts and
Crafts of Poetry (org. Augusto Massi, 1991), Outras Praias / Other
Shores: 13 Emerging Brazilian Poets (org. Ricardo Corona, 1998), These
Poets (org. Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, 1998), Commented Anthology of
21st Century Brazilian Poetry (org. Manuel da Costa Pinto, Publifolha,
2006), At the Turn of the Century - Poetry of Invention in Brazil (org.
Frederico Barbosa and Claudio Daniel, 2002), Poetry Br (ed. Sergio Cohn,
2016), Haiku from Brazil (ed. Adriana Calcanhotto, 2014), 101 Poets from
Paraná (ed. Ademir Demarchi, 2015), Haiku from Paraná (ed. Teresa
Hatue, 2018). Teresa Hatue, 2018), A Kind of Cinema: Anthology of Brazilian
and Portuguese Poems (org. Celia Pedrosa, 2019) and Poetic Act: Poems
for Democracy (org. Maria Tiburi and Luis Maffei) and Lulalivre.
Abroad, he has participated in the anthologies of the magazines Rattapallax
(USA), Vallejo & Co. magazine (Peru), tse=tsé (Argentina), Poetry
Wales (Wales) and the books El Poeta y su Trabajo (Mexico), Cities
of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil and
Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas (USA), among others.
As a translator, he made
his book debut in 1990 with Sylvia Plath: Poems (Iluminuras, the first
Plath anthology in Brazil). In 1994 he published Iluminations: Painted
Plates, by Arthur Rimbaud (Iluminuras, 1994), both in partnership with
Maurício Arruda Mendonça. In 2004 he translated and organized the books Mindscapes,
by Laura Riding (the result of his thesis at UFSC, Editora Iluminuras) and The
Seafarer ( by the anonymous Anglo-Saxon, Lamparina). In 2005 he published Leaves
of Grass: The First Edition (1855), by Walt Whitman (Iluminuras). It was
the first time that Whitman had a complete book, in a bilingual edition,
published in the country. In 2007 it was the complete and facsimile version of Ariel,
by Sylvia Plath (Verus Editora, in partnership with Cristina Macedo). In 2018,
Ateliê Editorial published the book Epigrams, by the Hispano-Roman Marco
Valerio Marcial (around 38-104 AD).
For two consecutive years he was a
finalist for the Jabuti Prize: in 2005, in the Best Book of Poems category,
with Nomad, and in 2006, in the Best Translation category, with Leaves
of Grass (by Whitman). In 2009 and 2010 he was awarded the Funarte Literary
Creation Grant (for The Troubadour and Reality Studio). Extraordinary
Experiences and The Troubadour were semi-finalists for the Oceanos
Prize for Literature. Extraordinary Experiences was a finalist for the
2015 Jabuti Prize.
The Troubadour (Record,
2014) was also a finalist for the 2015 São Paulo Literature Prize. In 2018, he published Literary Roadmap -
Paulo Leminski, one of the three winners of the 2019 National Library Award
in the Literary Essay category.
In 2007 he co-scripted Satori Uso,
by Rodrigo Grota, a film inspired by the life and work of the
Japanese-Brazilian poet created by Garcia Lopes in 1985. The movie won 3 prizes in the prestigious Gramado Film Festival, among other national and international
prizes. His historical detective novel "The Troubadour" will soon be made into a feature film and miniseries, produced by Luis Dantas, of Plano Geral.
As a songwriter and composer, working at the intersection of word-music and voice, he independently released the CD Polivox in 2001. In 2012, he released Songs from Reality Studio (https://rgarcialopes.wixsite.com/site/). He has performed in prestigious venues and musical projects such as "Outros Bárbaros" (Itaú Cultural, São Paulo), "Prata da Casa" (SESC Pompéia, São Paulo).
He has been teaching literary workshops
since 2010 and is frequently invited to be a jury member for prestigious
literary awards such as Oceanos, the Paraná-Public Library of Paraná Award and
the National Library Literary Award. In 2013, he was the Literature jury for
the Elisabete Anderle Award in Santa Catarina. He currently collaborates with
the magazine Suplemento Pernambuco, is preparing a new album of
unpublished songs composed in Florianópolis and is finishing a crime novel. Set
in 2018 in Florianópolis, Joinville, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Berlin, the
new novel, written over the last five years, features a writer and journalist
from Santa Catarina as the central character in the plot. He is also preparing
a new book of poems. In February 2024, Companhia das Letras will publish his
translation of Zona e Outros Poemas, by Guillaume Apollinaire, in the
Penguin-Classics collection. In 2023 his literary project was selected by the Jan Mchalski Foundation in Switzerland. In 2023 he also won the Santa Catarina Cultural Merit Award.
Books published in Brazil
and abroad
IN EUROPE:
* Poesie Raccolte
(1983-2020). Translated by Chiara De Luca. Ferrara, Italy: Kolibris
Edizioni, to be published in February-March 2024.
* Studio Realtà.
Translation by Chiara De Luca. Ferrara, Italy: Kolibris Edizioni, 2023.
* L'Enigme delle Onde.
Translated by Chiara De Luca. Ferrara, Italy: Kolibris Edizioni, 2023.
* O Enigma das Ondas. Porto, Portugal: Officium Lectionis, 2022.
NOVEL:
* The Troubadour.
Editora Record, 2014.
POETRY:
* Collected Poems
(1983-2020). Kotter Editorial, 2023.
* The Enigma of the Waves.
Iluminuras, 2020.
* Extraordinary
Experiences. Kan Editora, 2015.
* Reality Studio.
7Letras, 2013.
* Visibilia.
7Letras, 1997.
* Nomad.
Lamparina, 2004.
* Selected Poems,
Atritoart, 2001.
* Polivox.
Azougue, 2002.
* Solarium.
Iluminuras, 1994.
TRANSLATIONS:
* Guillaume Apollinaire. Zone
and Other Poems. In print from Penguin-Companhia das Letras, to be released
in February 2024.
* Marco Valerio Marcial. Epigrams.
Ateliê Editorial, 2017.
* Sylvia Plath. Ariel
(The Restored Edition). Verus, 2007.
* Walt Whitman. Leaves
of Grass - The First Edition - 1855. Illuminations, 2004.
Anonymous. The
Seafarer. From the Anglo-Saxon "The Seafarer" (c. 450-c. 1100).
Lamparina, 2004.
* Laura Riding.
Mindscapes. Illuminuras, 2004.
* Arthur Rimbaud.
Illuminations – Painted Plates. Illuminuras, 1996.
* Sylvia Plath. Poems.
Illuminuras, 1990.
* Non-commercial chapbooks with translations by Derek Walcott, Arthur Rimbaud, Jack Kerouac,
Mark Strand, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats and Robert Creeley. Galileo Editions,
2020-2021.
ESSAY:
* Literary Roadmap - Paulo
Leminski. Public Library of Paraná, 2018. Re-released in 2022, in a revised
and expanded edition, as It Was All Very Sudden: An Essay on Paulo Leminski.
Kotter Editorial, 2022.
INTERVIEWS:
* Voices and Visions:
A Panorama of Contemporary North American Arts and Culture. With Allen
Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, John Cage, Wiliam Burroughs, John Ashbery, Marjorie
Perloff, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roy
Lichtenstein, Wanda Coleman, among others. Iluminuras, 1996.
MUSIC (poetry & music
albums):
* Songs from Reality
Studio. Independent, 2013.
* Polivox.
Independent, 2001.
CINEMA
Satori Uso. Co-written
by Satori Uso, directed by Rodrigo Grota, based on the heteronym by Garcia
Lopes, Satori Uso, 2007.
Recognition, awards,
public notices, creative grants and work carried out:
2023. Selected for The Foundation Jan Michalski Writer's Residency Program scheduled for September-October 2024 (Montricher, Switzerland).
2023. Cultural
Merit Award from the Government of Santa Catarina, Brazil, for Artistic Career.
2019. Literary Roadmap - Paulo Leminski, is one of the 3 winners of the Brazilian National Library Award for Best Book (Literary Essay Category) 2018.
2016. Extraordinary
Experiences finalist for two literary prizes: the Jabuti and the Oceanos
Prize for Literature.
2015. The Troubadour
finalist in the São Paulo Literature Prize. Finalist for the Oceanos Prize.
2007-2008-2009 - Invited
to be a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).
2007. Satori Uso
(a film co-written with Rodrigo Grota, the film's director), based on the
Japanese-Brazilian poet created by Garcia Lopes in 1985) wins 4 awards at the
Gramado Film Festival, the most important Brazilian film festival.
2005. Nomad is a
finalist for Brazil's most traditional literary prize, the Jabuti, among the 10
best poetry books of 2004.
2004. His translation Leaves
of Grass by Walt Whitman is a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the Best
Translation category.
Solarium
chosen by the Centre National du Livre (of the French Ministry of Culture) for
the Special Aid Program for Brazilian Literature.
2004. His translation Leaves
of Grass by Walt Whitman is a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the Best
Translation category.
Solarium
chosen by the Centre National du Livre (of the French Ministry of Culture) for
the Special Aid Program for Brazilian Literature.
2001. "Stanzas in
Meditation" is included in The 100 Best Brazilian Poems of the Century
(Objetiva).
2012. Petrobras Literary
Creation Grant. For the research and writing of Extraordinary Experiences (poetry).
2012. Invited to the
International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA.
Invited for Artist
Residency at The Hermitage Artist Retreat. Manasota Key, Florida, USA.
2009. Funarte Literary Creation Grant, to complete
the research and writing of The Troubadour.
2007. Invited for Artist
Residency at The MacDowell Colony. New Hampshire, USA.
2001-2014. One of the
editors, along with Marcos Losnak and Ademir Assunção, of the art and
literature magazine Coyote, one of the longest-running and most
important literary magazines in Brazil, funded by PROMIC - Londrina's Municipal
Culture Incentive Program. Department of Culture of Londrina City Hall.
From May 1999 to January
2000. Capes Doctoral Scholarship. Brazilian Agency for the Support and
Evaluation of Higher Education. UFSC-Arizona State University.
From May 1999 to January
2000. Capes Doctoral Scholarship. Brazilian Agency for the Support and
Evaluation of Higher Education. UFSC-Arizona State University.
1999. Literary grant from
the Ministry of Culture and the National Library Foundation. To write Polivox
(poetry).
1990-1991. Journalism
Scholarship. Rotary International Foundation. For the book of interviews Voices
and Visions: A Panorama of North American Art and Culture Today. Arizona
State University, USA
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