João Simões Lopes Neto

João Simões Lopes Neto was born on 9 March 1865 in Pelotas, on the estância da Graça, the property of his grandfather, the Viscount da Graça. Sent at the age of thirteen to the Abílio de Rio school, he returned to Pelotas in 1886 and from 1888 wrote in the city's newspapers. He launched into many ventures, a glassworks, a distillery, a tobacco factory, which failed and impoverished him. He published only three books in his lifetime, a songbook, tales and legends, and died poor and ill in Pelotas on 14 June 1916.

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• Short storiesContos gauchescosJoão Simões Lopes Neto · 1912not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain