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Lima Barreto
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1881
- Died
- 1922
- Works
- 62
Top works
- Clara dos Anjos
- O Homem que sabia javanês
- Marginália
- Diário íntimo
- O triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma
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Film & TV
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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 early years of the First Brazilian Republic. He was born on a Friday the 13th, considered superstitiously to be an unlucky day, but which he personally considered to…
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 113
- Total plays
- 695
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Rio de Janeiro
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro
- Occupation
- novelist
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Image
- Lima Barreto - detalhe da ficha da primeira internação manicomial.png
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- Commons category
- Lima Barreto
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1881-05-13
- date of death
- 1922-11-01
- birth name
- Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto
- place of burial
- Cemitério de São João Batista
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons Creator page
- Lima Barreto
- ethnic group
- African Brazilians
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Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Lima Barreto, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
