lectured Brazilian studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, on a grant by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. He was elected a member of the Brazilian Literary Academy on May 4, 1961, and inaugurated on December 18, 1961, taking over seat number 30, formerly of Antônio Austregésilo. Inspired by his love of the Portuguese language, he decided to produce his own dictionary. After several years of work, in 1975 he published the Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa which was for many decades the reference lexicon in Brazil – to the point that Aurélio and Aurelião ("big Aurélio") became popular synonyms of dictionary. (It is said that his collaborators once proposed to add that entry to the dictionary, but Aurélio vetoed it.) This book went through dozens of reprints and revisions, and spawned several derivative editions. Aurélio was also member of the Brazilian Academy of Philology, of the Pen Clube do Brasil (the Brazilian section of the International Writers Association), the Brazilian Folklore Commission, the Alagoas Literary Academy, the Alagoas Historical and Geographical Institute, and the Hispanic Society of America. Books Dois Mundos (1942). O Romance Brasileiro de 1752 a 1930, a survey of Brazilian novels (1952). Enriqueça o Seu Vocabulário, collected columns from Seleções do Reader's Digest (1958). Território Lírico, essays on poetry (1958). Vocabulário Ortográfico Brasileiro (1969). O Chapéu de Meu Pai, revised and condensed edition of Dois Mundos, (1974). Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, nicknamed "Aurelião" (1975). Minidicionário da Língua Portuguesa, nicknamed "Miniaurélio" (1977). Dicionário Aurélio Infantil da Língua Portuguesa, a children's dictionary, with illustrations by Ziraldo (1989). Articles and essays Linguagem e Estilo de Eça de Queirós, essay on Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz; in Livro do Centenário de Eça de Queirós (1945). Enriqueça o Seu Vocabulário, monthly columns in Seleções do Reader's Digest (1950–1958). Translations and critical editions Mar de Histórias, with Paulo Rónai, an anthology of tales from the world's literature; volume I (1945), volume II (1951), volume III (1958), volume IV (1963), volume V (1981). Poemas de Amor, love poems by Amaru. Pequenos Poemas em Prosa, poems by Charles Baudelaire. Contos Gauchescos e Lendas do Sul, tales about Southern Brazil by Simões Lopes Neto (1949). Roteiro Literário do Brasil e de Portugal, with Álvaro Lins, an anthology of Portuguese-language literature (1956). External links Biography at the Brazilian Literary Academy site. Brazilian lexicographers Brazilian translators Brazilian essayists Buarque de Holanda, Aurelio 1910 births 1989 deaths