Born: September 10, 1930
From: SĂŁo LuĂs, MaranhĂŁo, Brazil
Ferreira Gullar, pseudonym of JosĂ© Ribamar Ferreira (SĂŁo LuĂs, September 10, 1930 – Rio de Janeiro, December 4, 2016), was a Brazilian writer, poet, art critic, biographer, translator, memoirist and essayist and one of the founders of neoconcretism. He was the candidate for chair 37 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, in the vacancy left by Ivan Junqueira, of which he took office on December 5, 2014.