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Walter Campos de Carvalho (November 1, 1916 – April 10, 1998) was a Brazilian writer. An outsider in the Brazilian literary circles during his lifetime, his writing was characterized by ironic humour, iconoclastic and surreal themes.


Biography

Campos de Carvalho was born in
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, in the state of
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. In 1938 he graduated in law, having retired as State Prosecutor of São Paulo, where he lived with his wife Lygia Rosa de Carvalho. His life has always been linked to literature, initially published Banda Forra (humorous essays) in 1941, and Tribo (novel) in 1954 later wrote the novels A Lua vem da Ásia (1956), Vaca de Nariz Sutil (1961), A Chuva Imóvel (1963) and O Púcaro Búlgaro (1964). The author also collaborated with
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and worked in the newspaper
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, in the period 1968–1978. After 1978 he retired from writing. Campos de Carvalho died of a heart attack on April 10, 1998, in
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.


Works

*''Banda Forra'', humoristic essays (1941) *''Tribo'', novel (1954) *''A Lua vem da Ásia'', novel (1956) *''Vaca de Nariz Sutil'', novel (1961) *''A Chuva Imóvel'', novel (1963) *''O Púcaro Búlgaro'', novel (1964)


References

1916 births 1998 deaths Brazilian male writers People from Uberaba {{Brazil-writer-stub