José Lins do Rego

José Lins do Rego was born on 3 June 1901 in Pilar, in Paraíba. Orphaned of his mother as a small child, he grew up on his maternal grandfather's engenho. A law student in Recife from 1920, he was later a bank inspector in Alagoas, then a tax inspector in Rio, where he settled in 1935 and wrote for the press. He devoted a cycle of novels to the decline of the sugar mills of the Northeast, was also involved in football, and was elected in 1955 to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He died in Rio on 12 September 1957.

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• NovelFogo mortoJosé Lins do Rego · 1943not translated into EnglishLiterature