Adriana Calcanhotto appears as a candidate for Cleonice Berardinelli’s vacancy at ABL

Singer Adriana Calcanhotto can compete for seat number 8 at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, occupied by writer and professor Cleonice Berardinelli – Dona Cleo, for those who are intimate. One of the world’s leading specialists in Portuguese literature, Berardinelli died this Tuesday (31) at the age of 106. She and Calcanhotto had a friendship and shared interests.

Well connected in the Academy, Adriana is far from being an outsider in matters related to literature, especially Portuguese. Guest professor at the University of Coimbra, the singer from Rio Grande do Sul even paid homage to Dona Cleo and participated in projects alongside the writer, such as the recital of poems by Mario de Sá-Carneiro, in 2014, at the monumental Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, in downtown From Rio.

It is not the first time that Calcanhotto’s name has appeared on the list of people interested in occupying an ABL chair, a hypothesis that she has always rejected. But now it’s different. According to F5 found out, she thinks “with great affection” about officially launching her name to the succession on the 2nd of March. For Dona Cleo and in memory of her.

It is not the first time that Calcanhotto’s name has appeared on the list of people interested in occupying an ABL chair, a hypothesis that she has always rejected. But now it’s different. According to what F5 found out, she thinks “with great affection” about officially launching her name to the succession on the 2nd of March. For Dona Cleo and in memory of her.