Machado de Assis

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Machado de Assis

AKA Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Born: 21-Jun-1839
Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 29-Sep-1908
Location of death: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial [1]
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Poet

Nationality: Brazil
Executive summary: Dom Casmurro

Universally considered Brazil's greatest novelist.

[1] Mixed ancestry, one-quarter black, the rest mostly Portuguese.

Father: Francisco José de Assis (housepainter)
Mother: Maria Leopoldina Machado de Assis
Wife: Carolina Augusta Xavier de Novais (m. 1869)

Academia Brasileira de Letras President (1897-1908)
Portuguese Ancestry
Risk Factors: Epilepsy

Author of books:
Cris�lidas (1864, poetry)
Falenas (1870, poetry)
Ressurrei��o (1872)
Hist�rias da Meia Noite (1873)
Americanas (1875, poetry)
Mem�rias P�stumas de Br�s Cubas (1881, novel)
Pap�is Avulsos (1882)
Hist�rias sem data (1884)
Quincas Borba (1891, novel)
V�rias hist�rias (1896)
P�ginas recolhidas (1899)
Dom Casmurro (1899, novel)
Poesias completas (1901, poetry)
Esa� e Jac� (1904)
Rel�quias da Casa Velha (1906)
Memorial de Aires (1908)

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