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Dalton Jérson Trevisan (14 June 1925 – 9 December 2024) was a Brazilian short story writer. He published more than thirty collections of short stories and is considered “a Brazilian master of the genre". In 2012, Trevisan won the Prémio Camões, the leading prize for literature in Portuguese.

Life and work

Trevisan graduated from the Federal University of Paraná with a degree in legal studies but seldom worked in the law profession.

In the 1940s, Trevisan worked as the editor of Joaquim, a literary magazine that brought Paraná into mainstream Brazilian literary discourse. The magazine published 21 issues and circulated between April 1946 and December 1948. Lazzarotto continued to work with Trevisan as an editorial partner over the following decades.

In 1959, Trevisan published his first collection, Novelas Nada Exemplares. His short stories were inspired by daily life in Curitiba, his hometown. He also experimented with prose Haiku. World Literature Today described his stories as depicting "blood-soaked violence, primarily the domestic kind frequently splashed across lurid tabloids that sensationalize the conjugal warfare between oppressive husbands and oppressed wives." His narratives sought to expose a culture of perversion and violence underlying middle-class hypocrisy. His reclusive behavior and the content of his work earned him the nickname "The Vampire of Curitiba".

In 1972, translator Gregory Rabassa translated Novelas Nada Exemplares and O Vampiro de Curitiba into English. As of 2024, these remain the only translations of Trevisan's collections. Two translated stories, The Corpse in the Parlor and The Vampire of Curitiba, are included in the English-language Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story. K. David Jackson's introduction describes Trevisan as a modernist innovator, who "continues to pare his stories, which demolish bourgeois desire, until arriving at the mini-story, or minimalist form".

Trevisan died in Curitiba on 9 December 2024, at the age of 99.

Works

• Abismo de Rosas (1976)
• Ah, É? (1994)
• A Faca No Coração (1975)
• A Guerra Conjugal (1969)
• A Polaquinha (1985) (novel)
• Arara Bêbada (2004)
• A Trombeta do Anjo Vingador (1977)
• Capitu Sou Eu (2003)
• Cemitério de Elefantes (1964)
• 111 Ais (2000)
• Chorinho Brejeiro (1981)
• Contos Eróticos (1984)
• Crimes de Paixão (1978)
• Desastres do Amor (1968)
• Dinorá – Novos Mistérios (1994)
• 234 (1997)
• Em Busca de Curitiba Perdida (1992)
• Essas Malditas Mulheres (1982)
• Gente Em Conflito (with Antônio de Alcântara Machado) (2004)
• Lincha Tarado (1980)
• Macho não ganha flor (2006)
• Meu Querido Assassino (1983)
• Morte na Praça (1964)
• Mistérios de Curitiba (1968)
• Noites de Amor em Granada
• Novelas nada Exemplares (1959)
• 99 Corruíras Nanicas (2002)
• O Grande Deflorador (2002)
• O Pássaro de Cinco Asas (1974)
• O Rei da Terra (1972)
• O Vampiro de Curitiba (1965) (The Vampire of Curitiba)
• Pão e Sangue (1988)
• Pico na veia (2002)
• Primeiro Livro de Contos (1979)
• Quem tem medo de vampiro? (1998)
• Vinte Contos Menores (1979)
• Virgem Louca, Loucos Beijos (1979)
• Vozes do Retrato – Quinze Histórias de Mentiras e Verdades (1998)

References

1. "Dalton Jérson Trevisan". Recanto das Letras (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 28 May 2023.
2. Oxford Anthology of Brazilian Short Stories. Oxford University Press. 2006. p. 378. ISBN 9780195167597.
3. "Literature: Brazilian author Dalton Trevisan awarded "Camões Prize" – Portugal". Portuguese American Journal. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
4. "Trevisan e a batalha na ABL | Radar on-line - Lauro Jardim - VEJA.com". 23 June 2013. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
5. "Dalton Trevisan distinguido com o Prémio Camões - Cultura - PUBLICO.PT". 21 May 2012. Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
6. Almeida, Marco Rodrigo (7 May 2016). "Tímido ao ser abordado em público, Dalton Trevisan afirma não ser quem é". Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
7. "Imprensa: Curitiba revisitada". Biblioteca Pública do Paraná (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 25 August 2022.
8. Vieira, Nelson. "The 20th Century and Beyond in Brazilian Literature". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
9. Vieira, Nelson H. (Winter 1990). "World literature in review: Portuguese". World Literature Today. 64 (1): 85. doi:10.2307/40145842. JSTOR 40145842. 9610220281. As Brazil's acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas, Dalton Trevisan infuses his twenty-second publication with twenty-two narratives of blood-soaked violence, primarily the domestic kind frequently splashed across lurid tabloids that sensationalize the conjugal warfare between oppressive husbands and oppressed wives.
10. Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story.
11. "15/06/2022 - Aniversário de Dalton Trevisan: O vampiro de Curitiba". www.revistamuseu.com.br. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
12. Lopes, Liliane Mantovani (3 March 2021). "Uma análise da tradução para o inglês de vocábulos recorrentes e preferenciais nas obras Novelas Nada Exemplares e O Vampiro de Curitiba, de Dalton Trevisan, à luz dos estudos da tradução baseados em corpus".
13. Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story. Oxford University Press. 2006. p. 19. ISBN 9780195167597.
14. "Dalton Trevisan, um dos maiores contistas do Brasil, morre aos 99 anos em Curitiba". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 10 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

External links

• Dalton Trevisan at IMDb
• Projeto Releitura Archived 1 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
• Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story
• The Rise of Modern Literature in Southern Brazil Archived 22 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine

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