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José de Alencar
1829May, 1

José de Alencar

José de Alencar, Brazilian author and playwright (d. 1877)
José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo.

He was patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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