Machado de Assis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Machado de Assis

Brazilian writer

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1839

Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date of Death: 29-Sep-1908

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, typographer, journalist, literary critic, novelist, linguist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Machado de Assis

  • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [?w?'ki m?'?i.? m?'?adu d?i ?'sis]), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.
  • Nevertheless, Assis did not achieve widespread popularity outside Brazil during his lifetime.
  • In 1897 he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
  • He was multilingual, having taught himself French, English, German and Greek in later life.
  • Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • In 1941, the Brazilian Academy of Letters founded in his honor the Prêmio Machado de Assis (Machado de Assis Award), the most prestigious literary award in the country.
  • For his innovation and audacity in early themes, Assis is often seen as a writer of unprecedented production, known for his irony and wide vocabulary.
  • Assis' greatest works are Dom Casmurro (1899), Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas ("Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas", also translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner) and Quincas Borba (also known in English as Philosopher or Dog?).
  • Machado de Assis was included on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the greatest 100 geniuses of literature; and although Machado was of mixed ethnicity, Bloom considers him the greatest black writer in Western literature.

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