About the Author Dr. Edmar Bernardes because of his Portuguese ancestry he grew up bilingual Portuguese/American English. He writes and reads very well both Portuguese and English. The author also speaks, read well Italian and he also write Italian quite well, and has a great knowledge of German and Esperanto. The author did all his high education in the United States. The author also spent few months in Italy and learned Italian, and seven months in Germany where he studied German. Here in the United States with the guidance of Professor and American Linguist Dr. Robert N. Kvašňák (his partner in life) who was an academic and a born linguist, Ed continued to study German and Esperanto. Along with Dr. Kvašňák, Ed also worked as a translator and interpreter from Portuguese into English and from English into Portuguese between 1995 and 2000.Life Changing In 1999, after having published the books Viagens Dentro de Mim e do Universo (Voyage Inside Myself and the Universe), Astros e Estrelas (Stars & Planets) and Sentimentos e Paixões (Feelings and Passions), Ed decided to get a bachelors in History, a Masters in Geography and a doctoral degree in Geography Education. When working on his doctoral degree in Geography Education with the guidance of the University Professor Dr. Penelope J. Fritzer and the University Professor Dr. Robert N. Kvašňák at Florida Atlantic University in Florida, now Dr. Bernardes (also known as Dr. Da-Silva) also worked as a University Professor for around seventeen years teaching geography at the university level for Broward College and Palm Beach State College in Florida. He has also taught Social Science Education to educators at the university level. In 2002 Ed published Perdido em Berlim (Lost in Berlin), a collection of short stories and chronicles written in Berlin when Ed and Robb N. Kvašňák lived in Germany. As a university professor of geography, Dr. Bernardes has published several academic articles in academic journals in collaboration with Dr. Robert N. Kvašňák. Also, in collaboration with Dr. Robert N. Kvašňák, Dr. Edmar Bernardes wrote a pedagogical chapter on Education about Brazil in a pedagogy book on education in different countries around the world. In 2017 Edmar decided to stop teaching at the university level, and started a small inn to have time to help Dr. Kvašňák who became ill, and also focus more on researching his historical book about his family that took him fifteen years to finish between writing and researching. During his research Dr. Bernardes had the guidance of the Genealogist and Lawyer Iácones Batista Vargas who was also the prefacer of the historical book and the poetry book in the absence of Dr. Robert N. Kvašňák to whom the author had given the work of the preface to the poetic book, but unfortunately he (Dr. Kvašňák) passed on February 13, 2022, and did not have the opportunity to write the preface to the book of epic poems that the author Dr. Edmar Bernardes wanted Dr. Kvašňák to write so much.Publications The author's published in 2022 Açores de Minas (Azores of Minas), a historical and genealogical book that tells the history of the Azoreans (in these cases those coming from the islands of Pico and Santa Maria) and other Portuguese from the Guimarães Region in northern Portugal, Portuguese who came to colonize the Southern region of Minas and the Center Western of Minas Gerais. The author's origins (ancestry) are connected with the Portuguese regions of the Azores and Guimarães. And also, in 2022, the author published Laços de Família (Family Ties), a collection of epic poems connected with the historical book Açores de Minas. Also published in 2023 on Amazon Kindle and paperback, the books for men who love another man are Paralodoj de la Koro - Falas do Coração in Portuguese, and Esperanto. Feelings & Passions, Tales of Two Men in Love – Short Stories & Chronicles, Poetry for Two Men in Love (Poemas Para Dois Homens Apaixonados), and recently Two Men One Love – Short Stories & Chronicles (Dois Homens Um Amor – Contos & Crônicas), Feelings & Passions (Poetry), Two Men One Destiny (Short Stories & Chronicles), Poetry of Two Men in Love – Poemas Para Dois Homens Apaixonados (Poetry Bilingual), Male Lovers: Military Generals, the author's first novel, From Him to Him – Dele Para Ele (Poetry in Prose Bilingual English/Portuguese), Written For Him – Escrito Pra Ele (Poetry in Prose Bilingual English/Portuguese), Male Lovers: The Birt of Passion – Amantes Masculinos: O Nascer da Paixão (Bilingual English/Portuguese), Emperor Hadrian’s Male Lover – Novel, Love is Love! a bilingual book of poetry in English and Portuguese, a poetry book Written for Male Lovers totally in English, My Romance, a collection of all my poems in English as an anthology in one book, An Alpha Male Lost in Berlin a collection of Short Stories & Chronicles. Edmar's latest publication is Meu Romance (My Romance), the Portuguese version of My Romance already published in American English. Dr. Edmar Bernardes traveled four continents and visited different countries: United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Holland, England, Belgium, India Turkey.Read more about this authorRead less about this author