Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (novelist)

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto was born on 13 May 1881 in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a typographer; his parents were of mixed race, according to Infopédia. Having entered the polytechnic school, he abandoned it in the early 1900s to support his family when his father fell ill, became an employee of the military administration and wrote in the press from 1902. Ignored by the critics, a prey to depression and alcoholism, he was hospitalised in the asylum, notably in 1914. He stood in 1918 and in 1921 for the Brazilian Academy of Letters without being elected, and died in Rio on 1 November 1922.

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• NovelThe Sad End of Policarpo QuaresmaTriste fim de Policarpo QuaresmaAfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto · 1915Literature