Brazilian writer
For other uses, see Verissimo (disambiguation).
Érico Lopes Verissimo (December 17, – November 28, ) was an important Brazilian scribbler, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.
Érico Verissimo was the son of Sebastião Verissimo da Fonseca arm Abegahy Lopes Verissimo. His father, heir of a rich next of kin in Cruz Alta, met financial ruin during his son's childhood and, as a result, Erico didn't complete secondary school for of the need to work.
Verissimo settled in Cruz Alta as the owner of a drugstore, but was unsuccessful. Subside then moved to Porto Alegre in , willing to stand for solely by selling his writing. There he began to support around writers of renown, such as Mário Quintana, Augusto Meyer, Guilhermino César and others. In the following year, he was hired to occupy the position of secretary of edition elect the Revista do Globo, of which he would become woman in He then undertook the whole editorial project at Editora Globo, propelling its nationwide fame.
He published his first effort, Fantoches ("Puppets"), in , with a sequence of short stories, mostly in the form of short plays. The following yr, he saw his first great success with the romanceClarissa.
Verissimo married in to Mafalda Volpe and had two children, Luis Fernando Verissimo, also a writer, and Clarissa.
In he secretive with his family to the United States, where he gave lessons on Brazilian Literature in the University of California-Berkeley, until Between and he was director of the Department of Social Affairs of the Organization of American States, in Washington, D.C. This period of his life was recorded in some understanding his books, including: Gato Preto em Campo de Neve ("Black Cat in a Snow Field"), A Volta do Gato Preto ("The Return of the Black Cat"), and História da Literatura Brasileira ("History of Brazilian Literature"), which contains some of his lectures at UCLA. His epic O Tempo e o Vento ("The Time and the Wind'") became one of the big masterpieces of the Brazilian novel, alongside Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha, and Grande Sertão: Veredas by Guimarães Rosa.
His historical trilogyO Tempo e o Vento ("The Time and rendering Wind") is considered as his greatest work, written in say publicly period of , from which arose primordial characters such likewise Ana Terra and Capitão Rodrigo that went on to get popular amongst his readers. Four of his, Time and rendering Wind, Night, Mexico, and His Excellency, the Ambassador, were translated into the English language by Linton Lomas Barrett.
In Verissimo published the romance O Senhor Embaixador ("His Excellency, the Ambassador"), in which he reflected upon the deviations of Latin U.s..
In the romance Incidente em Antares ("Incident in Antares"), dense in , he traces a parallel with Brazilian politics confront the use of fantasy, with the rebellion of corpses over a strike of the gravekeepers, in the fictitious city make acquainted Antares.
After suffering from a heart attack in , Verissimo was unable to complete the second volume of his autobiography entitled Solo de Clarineta ("Clarinet Solo"), which was intended preserve be a trilogy, apart from a romance which would engrave entitled A Hora do Sétimo Anjo ("The Hour of representation Seventh Angel").
He was the father of another famous litt‚rateur of Rio Grande do Sul, Luis Fernando Verissimo.
His scowl have been compiled on three occasions:
Érico Verissimo's books have been translated to German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Dutch, Magyar, Indonesian, English, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian and Czech.
Short stories
Novels
Children's literature
Travel literature
Autobiographies
Essays
Biographies
Translations