Alberto Guerreiro Ramos is the son of conductor Víctor Juvenal Ramos and washerwoman Romana Guerreiro Ramos. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, and began his literary career by the age of 17, working for the Bahian newspaper The Impartial (O Imparcial). Around that time, he participated in the Brazilian Integralist Action (Ação Integralista Brasileira – AIB, in Portuguese), a conservative and ultranationalist fascist-oriented political movement, joining its Catholic-inspired wing. Due to his journalistic activities, he also took part in several social movements in Bahia, which strengthened his personal and political relationships with eminent figures of the Bahian elite. His first book, “The drama of being two” was published in 1937, with poems of strong religious inspiration. During the period of Landulfo Alves de Almeida’s interventionist administration (1893–1954, in office 1938–1942) in the state of Bahia, he...
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Martins, H.V. (2021). Guerreiro Ramos, Alberto. In: The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38726-6_235-1
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