Janete Clair (born Jenete Stocco Emmer; April 25, 1925 – November 16, 1983) was a Brazilian television, radio play, and novel writer. TV series in Brazil continued to be based on her work fifteen years after her 1983 death from cancer in

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. She was the wife of writer

Dias Gomes Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes () (19 October 1922 – 18 May 1999) was a Brazilian playwright. He was born on October 19, 1922 in Salvador, Bahia. He started writing plays at age 15 and later wrote soap operas. He wrote the first ever colo ...

. She was born in

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to Salim Emmer, a merchant and Carolina Stocco, a seamstress. Through her father she was of Lebanese descent.

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* 1925 births 1983 deaths Authors of Brazilian telenovelas 20th-century screenwriters Women soap opera writers Brazilian women writers {{Brazil-writer-stub