Monteiro Lobato

José Bento Monteiro Lobato was born on 18 April 1882 in Taubaté, in the state of São Paulo, into a family of rural landowners. A law graduate in São Paulo, a prosecutor at Areias according to eBiografia, he inherited his grandfather's estate in 1911, which he ran until 1917. He then bought a nationalist review and founded the first properly Brazilian publishing house, later become the Companhia Editora Nacional. A champion of the search for national oil, he was imprisoned under Vargas. He wrote a great deal for children and died in São Paulo in July 1948.

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• Short storiesUrupêsMonteiro Lobato · 1918not translated into EnglishLiterature