Guilherme Figueiredo (1915–1997) was a Brazilian

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwri ...

. He is best known for 1949's A God Slept Here () and his play ''The Fox and the Grapes'' () in 1953 about

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's life, which won various awards, including the Atur Azevedo prize from the

Academia Brasileira de Letras The Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL; English: ''Brazilian Academy of Letters'') is a Brazilian literature, literary non-profit society established at the end of the 19th century. The first president, Machado de Assis, declared its foundation ...

Professional Life

Figueiredo debuted with the 1948 play Lady Godiva. Before becoming a dramaturg, he had studied law in Rio de Janeiro, during which time he wrote cultural reviews for the local publications O Jornal and Diário de Notícias. Despite the recognition of his plays, he held a number of other professions, such as translator (primarily from French to Portuguese), professor of theater studies, library director, and artistic director of TV Tupi, a commercial television network.

Death and personal life

He died at age 82 of cardiac arrest in May 1997. At the time of his death, he had been working on a memoir titled "A Bala Perdida

https://elpais.com/diario/1997/05/27/agenda/864684008_850215.html] Guilherme's brother, João Figueiredo, João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, was the 30th Brazilian president and final president of the military dictatorship that ended in 1985.

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20th-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights Brazilian male dramatists and playwrights 1915 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Brazilian male writers {{Brazil-writer-stub