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Lima Barreto
1881May, 13

Lima Barreto

Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1922)
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 first years of the República Velha in Brazil.

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