Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo (7 July 1855 – 22 October 1908) was a Brazilian playwright, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and
Parnassian poet. He is famous for consolidating in Brazil the "
comedy of manners" genre, initiated by
Martins Pena.
He founded and occupied the 29th chair of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1908.
Life
Azevedo was born in the city of
São Luís, in
Maranhão, to the Portuguese
vice-consul in Brazil David Gonçalves de Azevedo and Emília Amália Pinto de Magalhães. He was the older brother of
Naturalist novelist
Aluísio Azevedo, famous for writing ''
O Mulato'', ''
O Cortiço'' and ''
Casa de Pensão''.
Azevedo would show a love for theatre since he was a child. Initially working as a
salesman, he later got a job at the provincial administration, but was fired for writing
satires against the government. He later found a job as an
amanuensis
An amanuensis () is a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another, and also refers to a person who signs a document on behalf of another under the latter's authority. In one example Eric Fenby ...
in the
Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture.
Later beginning a promissory career as a journalist, he worked for the newspapers ''A Estação'', where he met
Machado de Assis, and ''Novidades'', where he met
Alcindo Guanabara
Alcindo Guanabara (19 July 1865 – 20 August 1918) was a Brazilian journalist and politician.
References
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Places
* Moreira (Maia), a parish in Maia Municipality, northern Portugal
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Olavo Bilac and
Coelho Neto.
He died in 1908.
Works
Poetry
* ''Carapuças'' (1871)
* ''Sonetos'' (1876)
Short story collections
* ''Contos Possíveis'' (1889)
* ''Contos Fora de Moda'' (1894)
* ''Contos Efêmeros'' (1897)
* ''Contos em Verso'' (1898)
Theatre plays
* ''Amor por Anexins'' (1872)
* ''A Filha de Maria Angu'' (1876)
* ''Uma Véspera de Reis'' (1876)
* ''A Pele do Lobo'' (1877)
* ''Joia'' (1879)
* ''O Anjo da Vingança'' (1882 — in partnership with
Urbano Duarte de Oliveira)
* ''O Escravocrata'' (1884 — in partnership with
Urbano Duarte de Oliveira)
* ''Almanjarra'' (1888)
* ''Fritzmack'' (1889 — in partnership with
Aluísio Azevedo)
* ''
A Capital Federal
''A Capital Federal'' is an operetta whose text was written by Brazilian writer Artur Azevedo. It was first published in 1897, the same year of its premiere. Besides being Azevedo's most popular play, it is perhaps the most popular Brazilian pla ...
'' (1897)
* ''O Badejo'' (1898)
* ''Confidências'' (1898)
* ''O Jagunço'' (1898)
* ''Comeu!'' (1901)
* ''O Retrato a Óleo'' (1902)
* ''O Dote'' (1907)
External links
Biography of Artur Azevedo
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1855 births
1908 deaths
Brazilian male poets
Brazilian male dramatists and playwrights
Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
People from São Luís, Maranhão
19th-century Brazilian poets
19th-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Brazilian male writers