Alvacir Raposo

Alvacir dos Santos Raposo Filho (born January 18, 1950) is a physician and writer.
Born in Piaui, Brazil, Raposo moved as a young man to Recife, Pernambuco. He graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in 1974 with a doctorate in Ophthalmology.
Raposo is a professor at UFPE and the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Pernambuco. He is an award-winning poet, composer frevos, having recorded a CD of gender to another physician and composer Luiz Guimaraes.

• Medical (UFPE);
• Master of Ophthalmology (UFPE), with a dissertation Retinal haemorrhages in newborns;
• Doctor of Medicine (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), with a thesis Variations of intraocular pressure in individuals undergoing testing stationary bike.

• A resistência e a Natividade. Recife: Fundarpe, 1994
• A casa do vinho. Recife: Fundarpe, 1994
• O galo de metal. Recife: Bagaço, 1995
• Rua dos Arcos. Recife: Bagaço, 1996
• O discurso do rei. Recife: Fundação de Cultura Cidade do Recife, 1996
• Sonetos. Recife: Bagaço, 1999
• O território. Recife: Bagaço, 1999
• Os tambores. Recife: Bagaço, 1999
• O pássaro e a arca. Recife: Bagaço, 2001
• Ensaio das lâminas. Recife, 2003
• A chama intacta. Recife: Bagaço, 2008

• Carnaval 2000 - CD frevo jointly with the medical composer Luiz Guimaraes.

• Mauro Mota Prize for Poetry, FUNDARPE, 1992
• Mauro Mota Prize for Poetry, FUNDARPE, 1993
• Poetry Prize from the Academy of Arts Pernambuco, 1993
• Award Ladjane Flag, Diario de Pernambuco, 1994
• Award Eugenio Coimbra Junior, City Council Culture of Recife, 1995
• Poetry Prize from the Academy of Arts Pernambuco, 1996

• Academia Pernambucana de Letras - elected and installed in 2002
• Academia de Letras e Artes do Nordeste - having exercised its presidency
• Sociedade Brasileira de Médicos Escritores (SOBRAMES-PE) - Socio-holder
  • Secretary for the biennium 1990-1991
  • President in 1992-1993
• Academia Recifense de Letras
• Academia Piauiense de Letras (honorary member)

• ARAÚJO, João; PEREIRA, Margarida; GOMES, Maria José. 100 anos de frevo: Uma viagem nostálgica com os mestres das evocações carnavalescas. Recife: Editora Baraúna, 2007
• MOREIRA, Cláudio Renato Pina. Piauienses graduados pelas faculdades de medicina do Recife. Teresina: Academia de Medicina do Piauí, 2009.