Carlos Frydman

Carlos Frydman (Warsaw (Poland), 1924) took an Accounting course as an auditor at the Fundação Álvares Penteado in the early 1950s but did not complete it. He was a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1952 and 1958, which led to his political imprisonment. In 1956, he traveled through Europe with the Teatro Popular Brasileiro, directed by the poet Solano Trindade. In the 1950s and 1960s, he published poems in the newspapers Notícias de Hoje (SP) and Imprensa Popular (RJ). Between 1968 and 1994, he was director of the Instituto Cultural Israelita Brasileiro in São Paulo SP. In 1990, he participated in the Third Meeting of Latin American Jewish Writers, held in São Paulo SP. From 1992 to 1994, he served as second Vice-President of the União Brasileira de Escritores. His poetic works include the books Os Caminhos da Memória (1965) and Sintonia (1990). According to critic Fábio Lucas, "In his poems, Carlos Frydman proposes a flow of intimate confessions adjusted to a vast appeal for human solidarity. Hence the oscillation his verses present between the minor key of amorous lyricism, of confidential expression, and the sonorous or eloquent proclamation of great social values."