Carlos Emílio C. Lima (1956-2022)
Brazilian author, poet, culture activist, and editor CARLOS EMÍLIO C. LIMA, 65, died on April 2, 2022, in Fortaleza, Ceará (in the Northeast Brazil), from an infection following surgery. Carlos Emílio Barreto Corrêa Lima was born in Fortaleza in 1956, and published first book Solário: Contos Infantis para Adultos [Solarium: Child Stories for Adults] in 1970, when he was 13. In that decade he wrote reviews for major newspapers and magazines such as Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de S. Paulo, Jornal da Tarde, Última Hora, and IstoÉ, and later edited literary tabloid Rio Arte & Literatura, where he published Fábio Fernandes’s debut science fiction story.
Lima’s own literature was magical realism and formal experimentalism, but he frequently used SF elements, as in ‘‘O Luvibórix’’ [The Luvibórix] (1986). His important A Cachoeira das Eras [The Waterfall of the Ages] (1979) was called ‘‘a mythical novel’’ by Braulio Tavares, who compared Lima’s torrential poetic prose to Jack Kerouac’s. Other books by Lima were story collections Ofos (1984) and O Romance que Explodiu [The Novel that Exploded] (2006) and novels Além, Jericoacoara [Beyond, Jericoacoara] (1982), Pedaços da História mais Longe [The Farthest Pieces of History] (1997), and Maria do Monte [Maria from the Hill] (2008).
In 2021, culture activist and author Nelson de Oliveira said that in the ‘‘territory of Brazilian fantastic fiction, Carlos Emílio Corrêa Lima is the most important author in activity – absolute master of the genre for decades.’’
–Roberto Causo
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