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José Geraldo Vieira
José Geraldo Vieira (April 16, 1897 – August 17, 1977) was a Brazilian writer, translator, and literary critic. Translator As a translator, Vieira was James Joyce's first translator in Brazil, and was also one of the first Brazilian writers to be strongly influenced by Joyce. He translated 60 books between 1944 and 1971. Among them the authors: Albert Schweitzer, Alphonse Daudet, Bertrand Russell, Dostoievski, Emil Ludwig, Erskine Caldwell, François Mauriac, Hemingway, Mark Twain, Mika Waltari, Níkos Kazantzákis, Pirandello, Stendhal, Thomas Merton and Tolstoy. Writer As a writer, José Geraldo Vieira is noted for his strong, image-laden evocations of setting, as well as his explorations of human emotional conflict in the context of religious and moral questions. Acclaimed novels such as “The Slope of Memory”, “The Woman Who Escaped from Sodom”, “The Albatross” and “The Fortieth Door” have primarily urban settings - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Pari ...
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Jose is the English transliteration Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus '' trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → and → the digraph , Cyrillic → , Armenian → or L ... of the Hebrew language, Hebrew and Aramaic language, Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. Given name Mishnaic and Talmudic periods *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galilean *Jose ben Halafta *Jose ben Jochanan *Jose ben Joezer of Zeredah *Jose ben Saul Male *Jose (actor), Indian actor *Jose Balagtas, Filipino film director *Jose Baxter (born 1992), English footballer *Jose Davis (born 1978), American football player *Jose Glover (died 1638), English minister and pioneer of the printing press in the New World *Jose Kattukkaran (born 1950), Indian politician *Jose Kurushinkal, Indian cricket umpire *Jose Kusugak (1950–2011), Inuk politician *Jos ...
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