1928–2014
Biography · Literature
Machado de Assis
1839–1908
Brazil
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Biography
The grandson of freed slaves, Machado de Assis founded and became first president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, producing landmark novels such as The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas.
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1924–1987
1913–2008