Nelson Rodrigues

Person · Open Library

Works

75

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

PT

Active from

1920-07-23

Active to

1999-10-06

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

190,083

Total plays

2,012,653

Nelson Gonçalves, born Antonio Gonçalves on June 21st, 1919, in Santana do Livramento, Brazil. He was a famous Brazilian singer and songwriter. His parents were Portuguese immigrants and Nelson was raised in São Paulo where he worked at some menial jobs such as selling newspaper and boxing. Even as a stammerer, Gonçalves embarked on a career in music that saw him become one of the most popular Brazilian radio singers of the 1950s. Nelson Gonçalves <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nelson+Gon%C3

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,438x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,613x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,770x

4. 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 15,951x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,994x

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Quotes

• “I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.”
• “The keyhole is my lens as a writer.”
• “To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.”
• “Only the prophets see the obvious.”
• “Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.”
• “Unanimity is always stupid.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Nelson

Family name

Rodrigues

Gender

male

Citizenship

Brazil

Place of birth

Recife

Place of death

Rio de Janeiro

Occupation

novelist

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)

Image

Nelson Rodrigues (1971).jpg

Number of children

6

Residence

Rio de Janeiro

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