Antônio Bivar Battistetti Lima (25 April 1939 – 5 July 2020), better known simply as Antônio Bivar, was a Brazilian writer of the Beat Generation and playwright. Life Born in São Paulo in 1939, Bivar moved to Ribeirão Preto in his teens and later worked as office assistant and office boy. At the age of 21 he joined the Conservatório Nacional de Teatro in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied Performing arts. In 1968, his plays Cordélia Brasil and Abre a janela e deixa entrar o ar puro e o sol da manhã both helped him win the Molière Award for best Playwright. Between 1970 and 1972, Bivar spent most of his time traveling overseas due to his deteriorating relationship with the Brazilian military government. During his trips he saw the birth of the Punk subculture in London and became fascinated with the movement. In the 1980s, Bivar started writing books. His favorite genres were biography and memoir and his favorite subjects were theatre, punk culture and the beatnik movement. In 1982, Bivar organized O Começo do Fim do Mundo, Brazil's first punk festival which was held in his native São Paulo. Death On 5 July 2020, Bivar died in São Paulo at the age of 81 due to complications brought on by COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Bibliography Simone de Beauvoir, pare de fumar, siga o exemplo de Gildinha Saraiva e comece a trabalhar, play, 1964 Cordélia Brasil, play, 1967 Abre a janela e deixa entrar o ar puro e o sol da manhã, play, 1968 O cão siamês, play, 1969 A passagem da rainha, play, 1969 Longe daqui, aqui mesmo, play, 1971 Alzira Power, play, 1973 Gente fina é outra coisa, play, 1976 Quarteto, play, 1976 O que é punk, 1982 A passagem da rainha, play, 1984 James Dean, biography, 1984 Verdes vales do fim do mundo, memoir, 1985 Alice, que delícia!, play, 1987 Chic-a-boom, 1991 Longe daqui, aqui mesmo, memoir/travel, 1995 A três primeiras peças, 2002 Yolanda, biography, 2004 Jack Kerouac: o rei dos beatniks, biography, 2005 Bivar na corte de Bloomsbury, 2005 Histórias do Brasil Para Teatro, 2007 Contos atrevidos, 2009 O Teatro de Antônio Bivar/As Três Primeiras peças, 2010 Mundo adentro vida afora, memoir, 2014 Aos quatro ventos, biography, 2016 Punk, 2018 Perseverança, 2019 References 1939 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Brazilian male writers 20th-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Brazilian male writers 21st-century