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Jun 21, 1839 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Died on 29 Sep 1908 (aged 69)
Brazilian writer
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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.
