Antônio Augusto Du Pin Calmon (born October 29, 1945) is a Brazilian

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writer.

Career

Beginning of his professional career took place in cinema, as director of short films and assistant direction in seminal films of the so-called

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(New Cinema), then conducted the Brazilian film ''Paranoia (1975)'', with screenplay by Carlos Heitor Cony, a tense police drama and suspense, on television wrote the serial-TV ''Armação Ilimitada'', attraction displayed by

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between 1985 until 1988. His debut as the author was in 1989, when he wrote along with Walther Negro the novel ''Top Model'', which addressed topics among others such as masturbation and pregnancy in adolescence, was a phenomenon of audience in Brazilian TV.

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* 1945 births Living people Authors of Brazilian telenovelas Brazilian male writers Male television writers {{Brazil-writer-stub