Antonio Carlos Secchin

Antonio Carlos Secchin () is a Brazilian writer and academic. He was born in Rio de Janeiro on June 10, 1952, to Sives Secchin and Victoria Regia Fuzeira Secchin. Until the age of six, he lived in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim. Since 1959, he has lived in Rio de Janeiro.

He obtained a PhD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1982. He has served as a professor of Brazilian literature at the universities of Bordeaux (1975-1979), Rome (1985), Rennes (1991), Mérida (1999), Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (2009) and at the Faculty of Letters at UFRJ, where he was promoted in 1993 to the rank of full professor. In 2013, he became professor emeritus at UFRJ. Provided by Wikipedia