Writing · Writer · Screenplay · Novel
Born May 13, 1881 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Active 1910–1922
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (13 May 1881 – 1 November 1922) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure in Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, a bitter satire of the early…