Joaquim Manuel de Macedo

Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was born on 24 June 1820 in Itaboraí, in the province of Rio de Janeiro. He graduated in medicine in 1844, the year of his first novel, and soon abandoned medicine for letters. A teacher of Brazilian history and geography at the Pedro II school, he was a provincial and then general deputy for the Liberal Party, founded a review in 1849 with Araújo Porto-Alegre and Gonçalves Dias, wrote for the newspapers and left sixteen plays. He died in Rio on 11 April 1882.

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• NovelA moreninhaJoaquim Manuel de Macedo · 1844not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain