
Nicolas
Behr (Nikolaus
von Behr) was born in Cuiabá in 1958 and has lived in Brasília since 1974. Behr put out his mimeographed book, Iogurte com Farinha, in 1977, the first
of many. In 1978 he was arrested and prosecuted by the right-wing military
dictatorship police on charges of possession of pornographic material (his
poems!) and was absolved the following year. He ceased publishing between 1980
and 1993, and since then has published many small books, most of which are
freely available on his website (nicolasbehr.com.br). Behr’s selected poems, Laranja
Seleta, published in 2008, was a finalist for the Portugal Telecom Prize in
Literature. He was the subject of a biography in 2004, a documentary film in
2010, and was invited to participate in several international festivals of
literature. Behr’s most recent books, Rasília and Alcina, were published in 2020. He currently makes his living
operating a greenhouse that specializes in native species of the surrounding
high savannah. He loves Brasília.