Lima Barreto
Brazilian novelist and journalist
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Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto 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. Wikipedia
Born: May 13, 1881, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: November 1, 1922 (age 41 years), Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Children: Amália Augusta de Lima Barreto
Education: UFRJ Polytechnic School
Parents: João Henriques de Lima Barreto and Amália Augusta Barreto