João Simões Lopes Neto

João Simões Lopes Neto (March 9, 1865 June 14, 1916) was a Brazilian regionalist writer from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.

João Simões Lopes Neto.

After some unsuccessful business ventures, Neto married at 27. He only wrote four significant works, but nevertheless made a strong contribution to Brazilian literature, specifically regionalist writing known as Criollismo in Latin America.[1][2]

Neto died of a perforated ulcer in 1916 at age 51.[3]

References

  1. Wild, Gerhard (2020), "Lopes Neto, João Simões", Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 1–1, ISBN 978-3-476-05728-0, retrieved March 1, 2022
  2. Peres, Eliane; Arriada, Eduardo; Pereira, Luís Artur Borges (2018). "A "Artinha de Leitura" de João Simões Lopes Neto (1907): um projeto para o ensino da leitura e da escrita". Revista Brasileira de História da Educação. 18: 1–29. doi:10.4025/rbhe.v18.2018.e003. ISSN 2238-0094.
  3. Mullen, Bill V. (September 23, 2021), "South Side Writers Group", African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press, retrieved March 4, 2022


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