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João Simões Lopes Neto
1916Jun, 14

João Simões Lopes Neto

João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian author (b. 1865)
João Simões Lopes Neto (March 9, 1865 – June 14, 1916) was a Brazilian regionalist writer from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.

After some unsuccessful business ventures, Neto married at 27. He only wrote four significant works, but nevertheless made a strong contribution to Brazilian literature, specifically regionalist writing known as Criollismo in Latin America.Neto died of a perforated ulcer in 1916 at age 51.

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