Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior

Brazilian writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBrazilian writer
PlacesBrazil
wasWriter Poet Novelist
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth17 February 1845, Rio de Janeiro
Death20 May 1898Lisbon (aged 53 years)
Star signAquarius
The details

Biography

Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior (Rio de Janeiro, 17 February 1845 – Lisbon, 20 May 1898) was a Brazilian diplomat, poet, novelist and dramaturgist.
He was bachelor in the Faculdade de Direito do Recife in 1869, in the same class of the writer Araripe Júnior. His works switched from Romanticism to Parnasianism.
As a diplomat, he lived in Santiago de Chile, Roma and Lisbon, where he finally stayed and he met intellectuals such as Eça de Queiroz, Ramalho Ortigão, Guerra Junqueiro or Fialho de Almeida. He was a member and one of the founders of Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Works

  • Lírio branco, novel (1862);
  • Uma cena contemporânea, theatre (1862);
  • Corimbos, poesia (1866);
  • A família agulha, novel (1870);
  • Noturnos, poetry (1872);
  • Filigranas, fiction (1872);
  • Sonetos e rimas, poetry (1880);
  • As quedas fatais, theatre;
  • André Vidal, theatre;
  • As jóias indiscretas, theatre;
  • Um pequeno demônio, theatre;
  • O caminho mais curto, theatre;
  • Os amores que passam, theatre;
  • Valentina, theatre;
  • A alma do outro mundo, theatre (1913).
Preceded by
Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa (patron)

Brazilian Academy of Letters - Occupant of the 31st chair

1897 — 1898
Succeeded by
João Batista Ribeiro de Andrade Fernandes


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