Antônio Houaiss

Antônio Houaiss
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Antônio Houaiss (1915 – 1999) was a Brazilian lexicographer, writer and translator, who served as the Minister of Culture.

He was the son of Lebanese immigrants.

He is best known for his translation of James Joyce's Ulysses, and for supervising the composition of the Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, one of the major reference dictionaries for the Portuguese language.

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José Aparecido de Oliveira \| Aluísio Pimenta \| Celso Furtado \| Hugo Napoleão do Rego Neto \| José Aparecido de Oliveira \| Ipojuca Pontes \| Sérgio Paulo Rouanet \| Antônio Houaiss \| Jerônimo Moscardo \| Luiz Roberto do Nascimento e Silva \| Francisco Weffort \| Gilberto Gil \| Juca Ferreira

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