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Lima Barreto
BornAfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto
(1881-05-13)13 May 1881
Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil
Died1 November 1922(1922-11-01) (aged 41)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, journalist
NationalityBrazilian
EducationColégio Pedro II
Alma materEscola Politécnica da UFRJ
Period1900–1922
GenreSatire
Literary movementPre-Modernism
Notable worksTriste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, Os Bruzundangas, Clara dos Anjos, O Cemitério dos Vivos
RelativesAfonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (13 May 1881 – 1 November 1922) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure in Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, a bitter satire of the first years of the República Velha in Brazil.[1]

  1. ^ "Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2016.

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Brazilian adventure western film directed by Lima Barreto. After some reluctance by its studio Vera Cruz, Barreto shot it in 1952. After its release it was...

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