Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo (7 July 1855 – 22 October 1908) was a Brazilian playwright, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and Parnassian poet. He is famous for consolidating in Brazil the "

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" genre, initiated by Martins Pena. He founded and occupied the 29th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1908.

Life

Azevedo was born in the city of São Luís, in

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, to the Portuguese vice-consul in Brazil David Gonçalves de Azevedo and Emília Amália Pinto de Magalhães. He was the older brother of

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novelist

Aluísio Azevedo Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (; 14 April 1857 – 21 January 1913) was a Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat, playwright and short story writer. Initially a Romantic writer, he would later adhere to the Naturalist movement. He ...

, famous for writing '' O Mulato'', '' O Cortiço'' and '' Casa de Pensão''. Azevedo would show a love for theatre since he was a child. Initially working as a

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, he later got a job at the provincial administration, but was fired for writing

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s against the government. He later found a job as an

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in the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture. Later beginning a promissory career as a journalist, he worked for the newspapers ''A Estação'', where he met

Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, ''Machado,'' or ''Bruxo do Cosme Velho''Vainfas, p. 505. (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian people, Brazilian novelist, poet, playwr ...

, and ''Novidades'', where he met Alcindo Guanabara, Moreira Sampaio,

Olavo Bilac Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac (16 December 1865 – 28 December 1918), known simply as Olavo Bilac (), was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member ...

and Coelho Neto. He died in 1908.

Works

Poetry

* ''Carapuças'' (1871) * ''Sonetos'' (1876)

Short story collections

* ''Contos Possíveis'' (1889) * ''Contos Fora de Moda'' (1894) * ''Contos Efêmeros'' (1897) * ''Contos em Verso'' (1898)

Theatre plays

* ''Amor por Anexins'' (1872) * ''A Filha de Maria Angu'' (1876) * ''Uma Véspera de Reis'' (1876) * ''A Pele do Lobo'' (1877) * ''Joia'' (1879) * ''O Anjo da Vingança'' (1882 – in partnership with

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) * ''O Escravocrata'' (1884 – in partnership with

) * ''Almanjarra'' (1888) * ''Fritzmack'' (1889 – in partnership with

) * '' A Capital Federal'' (1897) * ''O Badejo'' (1898) * ''Confidências'' (1898) * ''O Jagunço'' (1898) * ''Comeu!'' (1901) * ''O Retrato a Óleo'' (1902) * ''O Dote'' (1907)

External links

Biography of Artur Azevedo

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Azevedo, Artur 1855 births 1908 deaths Brazilian male poets Brazilian male dramatists and playwrights Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters People from São Luís, Maranhão 19th-century Brazilian poets 19th-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Brazilian male writers