Departures of note

Zuenir Carlos Ventura was born in Minas Gerais in 1931 and moved to Rio de Janeiro in his youth, working odd jobs before entering journalism. He began his career writing for Tribuna da Imprensa after volunteering to write about the death of Albert Camus at the request of Carlos Lacerda. He built a distinguished career in Brazilian journalism, working at Jornal do Brasil and later becoming a columnist for O Globo and Época magazine. In 1989 he was part of a Jornal do Brasil team that won the Esso Journalism Award for its reporting on the murder investigation of Chico Mendes. Ventura also taught for more than forty years at the Communication School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Superior School of Design of the Rio de Janeiro State University. Among his acclaimed books are Cidade Partida, which won the Jabuti Prize in 1995, and 1968 – O que Fizemos de Nós.