Cláudio Willer

Cláudio Willer, a Brazilian poet, translator, essayist and critic, was born in São Paulo in 1940 and died in São Paulo, on January 13, 2023. Willer earned degrees in Psychology from the University of São Paulo (1966) and in Social and Political Sciences from the Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo (1963), and received his PhD in Literature from USP in the area of Comparative Studies of Portuguese Language Literatures. His poetic output stands out for its connection with surrealism and the Beat Generation. Willer translated works by Lautréamont, Antonin Artaud, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac to Portuguese. As a critic and essayist, he wrote for several Brazilian newspapers and for alternative and independent press publications.