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Overview
- The centenary is being observed in Bahia with retrospectives and sessions at the Ilhéus and Bahia literary academies.
- A bill in the National Congress seeks to inscribe Milton Santos in the Livro dos Heróis e Heroínas da Pátria, a formal national honor.
- Early in his career he reported for A TARDE from the cocoa region and later served as the paper’s principal editor.
- After the 1964 military coup he lived in exile for 13 years, taught across three continents, and received the Vautrin Lud Prize in 1994.
- His body of work includes about 50 books and key ideas such as the theory of two urban economic circuits and The Nature of Space.