Lúcio Cardoso

Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho was born on 14 August 1912 in Curvelo, in Minas Gerais. He came to the novel with two books of a social vein, and from 1936 took the path of an intimate literature, turned towards good and evil. A journalist, he also wrote for the theatre, where the Teatro Experimental do Negro staged one of his plays in 1947, and for the cinema, notably with Paulo César Saraceni; he was also a poet and a painter. A friend and mentor of Clarice Lispector, he died in Rio on 22 September 1968.

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• NovelChronicle of the Murdered HouseCrônica da casa assassinadaLúcio Cardoso · 1959Literature