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João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian physician, writer, diplomat, and Esperantist. Born in Cordisburgo in 1908, he was educated at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He served as an ambassador and was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. His notable works include *The Devil to Pay in the Backlands*, *A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga*, and *Corpo de baile*. He wrote in Portuguese and also spoke Esperanto, Brazilian Portuguese, and French.
Rosa received the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) and the Prêmio Machado de Assis. He was married to Aracy de Carvalho. He died of natural causes due to a myocardial infarction in Rio de Janeiro on November 19, 1967.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1908
- Died
- 1967
- Works
- 106
Top works
- Grande sertão
- Seleta de João Guimarães Rosa
- A João Guimarães Rosa
- A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga
- הסרטאו הגדול
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 96
- Total plays
- 198
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 40
- Cited by
- 160
Research areas
Most cited works
- Grande Sertão: Veredas1956 · 89 cit
- The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories2020 · 24 cit
- Tutaméia (Terceiras Estórias)1968 · 10 cit
- O Léxico de Guimarães Rosa2001 · 9 cit
- Noites do Sertão1967 · 6 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- [14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent
· 1999 · cited 14,034x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,688x
- <i>Planck</i>2015 results
· 2016 · cited 9,861x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,250x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- João Neves da Fontoura
- Succeeded by
- Mário Palmério
- Born
- ( 1908-06-27 ) 27 June 1908, Cordisburgo , Minas Gerais , Brazil
- Died
- 19 November 1967 (1967-11-19) (aged 59), Rio de Janeiro , Guanabara , Brazil
- Alma mater
- Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Occupation
- Author, novelist, short story writer
- Profession
- Diplomat and medical doctor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- João
- Family name
- Rosa
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Cordisburgo
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro
- Spouse
- Aracy de Carvalho
- Occupation
- physician
- Position held
- ambassador
- Languages spoken
- Esperanto
- Notable work
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
- Image
- Guimarães Rosa, anos 1960.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1908-06-27
- date of death
- 1967-11-19
- member of
- Brazilian Academy of Letters
- Commons category
- Guimarães Rosa
- ethnic group
- Brazilians
- writing language
- Portuguese
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- João Guimarães Rosa
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Encyclopedic overview
João Guimarães Rosa (/ˈʒwaʊn ɡiːməˈraɪnz/ ZHWOWN ghee-mə-RYNEZ; Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ɡimaˈɾɐ̃jz ˈʁɔzɐ, ˈʒwɐ̃w -]; 27 June 1908 – 19 November 1967) was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet and diplomat.
Rosa only wrote one novel, Grande Sertão: Veredas (known in English as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), a revolutionary text for its blend of archaic and colloquial prose and frequent use of neologisms, taking inspiration from the spoken language of the Brazilian backlands. For its profoundly philosophical themes, the critic Antonio Candido described the book as a "metaphysical novel". It is often considered to be the Brazilian equivalent of James Joyce's Ulysses. In a 2002, poll by the Bokklubben World Library, "Grande Sertão: Veredas" was named among the best 100 books of all time. Rosa also published four books of short stories in his lifetime, all of them revolving around the life in the sertão, but also addressing themes of universal literature and of existential nature. He died in 1967 — the year he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature — due to a heart attack.
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