Luíz Cristóvão dos Santos was born in Pesqueira, Brazil on 25 December 1916. He was a sociologist,

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, folklorist, columnist, writer, advocate, and journalist. He was also known by the

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''Ziul'' and ''Pajeú''. Luíz Cristóvão dos Santos studied fishing in

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and completed his

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in law and

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at the Recife Faculty of Law in 1944. He was a promoter of justice in various districts of the hinterland of

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and

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of the newspaper ''Gazeta do Pajeú'' during the 1950s. He was a

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for State Deputy UDN – National Democratic Union in 1947 and after obtaining 1,339 votes became an alternate member. He also held candidacy for vice-mayor of the city in 1955. He participated actively in the cultural and political history of Pernambuco, fighting for citizens' rights and defending the state. Due to the premature death of a child, he retired as the second letter from lawyer OAB, the Brazilian Bar Association. A writer since adolescence, Luís Cristóvão dos Santos was also a journalist published in ''The Voice of the Hinterlands'', the ''Gazeta Pajeú'', ''

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'' and ''Jornal do Commercio'' and developed the ''Journal of Cultural Supplement'' of the state of Pernambuco. He wrote for several other newspapers in the country and contributed many works in the national press and Italy. Luíz Cristóvão dos Santos was a member of the Academy of Arts in

, Chair Four, and Patron of Chair 12 in the College of Letters and Arts Pesqueirense, a position once occupied by the immortal Lamb of Jarival Amaral. He twice received the award Othon Bezerra de Mello from the Academy of Arts Pernambuco with the book ''Paths of Pajeú'' (Chronic, 1955, foreword by José Lins do Rego), which became a best seller within a year in Rio de Janeiro, and ''Paths of the Hinterland'' (Chronic, 1970, preface by Mauro Mota). He was bestowed with the Medal of Merit of the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation for relevant contribution to Brazilian culture and in September 1970 received the title of Citizen of

. He also contributed to the development of several books, documentaries, films, and national reports on the Brazilian

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and the river ''Pajeú'', for which he was nicknamed. He was later recognized in Italy as a scholar of Frei Damião the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins in

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. His biography is being developed under the title ''ZIUL''. Luíz Cristóvão dos Santos died on 30 June 1997 in Santa Joana Hospital in the city of

of a stroke.

Books

*''Hino ao sertão'' (1937) *''Adolescência'' (1938) *''Bilhetes do Sertão'' (1950) *''Padre Cottart – um vigário do Pajeú'' (1953) *''Carlos Frederico Xavier de Brito – o bandeirante da goiaba'' (1953) *''Brasil de chapéu de couro'' (1958) *''Caminhos do Pajeú'' (1953) *''Caminhos do Sertão'' (1970) *''Chão de Infância'' (1983) *''Paisagem Humana do Pageú'' (inacabada) 1916 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Brazilian journalists People from Pesqueira, Pernambuco {{brazil-writer-stub