User:José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães

José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães, fourth and youngest son of José Lázaro Rodrigues Guimarães and Maria Eneida Nogueira Guimarães,was born on April 19th, 1967, in Itaúna, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He entered Law School of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte as an undergraduate student in 1985; graduated in 1997 after many leaves and misfortunes. In 2000 he started to take some subjects at the School of Letters of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais as well and in 2002 he was admitted as a regular undergraduate student. He majored in English in 2004. In 2005 he took a Post-Baccalaureate degree in Public Law at ANAMAGES (Associação Nacional dos Magistrados Estaduais)/Centro Universitário Newton Paiva. In 2007 he passed a competitive examination for the master's degree program of Pós-Lit (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras: Estudos Literários) from the School of Letters of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. His master's degree was on Literatures in English. His thesis was named "The Short-Short Story: a New Literary Genre." When he was a teenager, himself and two other schoolmates from Military School in Brasilia - at the time he was 15, wrote a play called "Perdidos". It was awarded by the former INACEN (Instituto Nacional de Artes Cênicas) and considered improper for the under 16 years old by the old Brazilian censor. At the age of 22 he wrote a book of poetry in English which he burned up three years later due to the religious fanaticism that took over him in the first years of the 1990's. Currently he is PEBT1F at SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DE EDUCAÇÃO DE MINAS GERAIS. At the moment he is preparing a proto-project of research for his Ph.D. on Comparative Literature.