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Graciliano Ramos

Died in 1953

Graciliano Ramos was born on 27 October 1892 in Quebrangulo, in Alagoas. A proofreader in the Rio press in 1914, he was then elected mayor of Palmeira dos Índios in 1927, resigned in 1930, and later headed the Official Press and the Public Instruction of Alagoas. Arrested under Vargas, he was held for almost a year without formal charge, according to Prepara Enem. A member of the Communist Party from 1945, he died of lung cancer in Rio on 20 March 1953.

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