Guilherme de Almeida

Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, film critic, poet, essayist and translator. He helped popularize the Japanese poem style, haiku, in Brazil.

Biography

He was born in Campinas on July 24, 1890. He is the son of Estevão de Araújo Almeida, a law teacher and jurist, and Angelina Andrade Almeida.
He married Belkiss Barroso de Almeida, and they had a son, Guy Sérgio Haroldo Estevão Zózimo Barroso de Almeida, who married Marina Queiroz Aranha de Almeida.
He fought in the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932. His greatest work of love to São Paulo was his poem, Nossa Bandeira, but he also wrote Moeda Paulista and the poignant Oração ante a última trincheira. He was proclaimed The poet of the Revolution.
He also wrote the lyrics of the "Canção do Expedicionário", with music by Spartaco Rossi.
He died in São Paulo on July 11, 1969.