Rubem Fonseca

Rubem Fonseca was born on 11 May 1925 in Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais, the son of Portuguese immigrants according to Prepara Enem. Having joined the Rio police in 1952, he remained there until 1958 according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and studied business administration at New York University. He published his first collection of short stories in 1963. Under the military dictatorship, one of his collections, published in 1975, was censored. Winner in 2003 of the Camões Prize and the Juan Rulfo Prize, he died in Rio on 15 April 2020.

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• NovelO caso MorelRubem Fonseca · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature