Autran Dourado

Autran Dourado (1926-2012) was the Brazilian writer. Received the Camões Prize for his body of work, the Machado de Assis Prize, the Jabuti Award, among others. The novel "Opera of the Dead" was chosen by UNESCO to integrate Representative Works Collection of Universal Literature. Autran Dourado (1926-2012) was born in Patos, Minas Gerais, on 18 January 1926. The son of a judge, lived in several cities. He studied the primary in the city of Monte Santo and the Gymnasium in São Sebastião do Paraíso. In 1940 he moved to Belo Horizonte. He began to attend law school at the same time, he worked as a journalist and stenographer of the Legislative Assembly. His debut in literature was given to the "Web" novel in 1947 graduated in Law in 1949. He joined the literary group who edited the Building magazine. In 1950, he published "Shadow and Exile," which won the Mario Award Seven Letters Journal. In 1952, he published "Love Time" novel that received the City of Belo Horizonte Award. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1954, where he worked as serventuário justice. In 1955, he published "Nine Stories in Group Three," which received the Arthur Azevedo Prize of the National Book Institute. For five years he was Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic Press under President Juscelino Kubitschek. In 1961, the author stands with the publication of "The Barca of Men," a novel that was chosen as the best book of the year by the Brazilian Union of Writers. His works have been translated into several languages. The Autran Dourado literature is formed content often tragic, but where is this a poetic climate, and their characters are usually solitary creatures, primitive types, unsuitable figures to life around them. His work "A Secret Life" was adapted for the cinema. His novel "Opera House of the Dead" was chosen by UNESCO to integrate its Representative Works Collection of Universal literature. Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado died in Rio de Janeiro, on 30 September 1912. He was buried in the cemetery St. John the Baptist.