Afonso Schmidt
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Affonso Schmidt was a journalist
Journalist
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, short story writer, novelist, playwright
Playwright
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Biography

Affonso Schmidt, in the city of Sao Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, founded the newspapers , A Plebe and A Lanterna, along with legendary figures of the anarchist moviment: Edgard Leuenroth and Oreste Ristori.

In the city of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
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, founded the newspaper
A Voz do Povo, which, in time, became the press organ of the workers of the country.

Writer extensively throughout his life, was the author of a vast literary and poetic work gathered in more than forty books and is also a pioneer of science fiction in Brazil
Brazil
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.

Poetry

  • Lírios Roxos (1907)
  • Miniaturas
  • Janelas Abertas (1911)
  • Mocidade (1921)
  • Garoa (1932)
  • Lusitania
  • Poesias (1934)
  • Poesia (1945)

Novels

  • Brutalidade
  • Os impunes
  • O dragão e as virgens (fantasia)
  • Pirapora
  • As levianas
  • Passarinho verde
  • Ao relento (fantasia)
  • Kellani
  • A revolução brasileira (crônicas)
  • A nova conflagração
  • O evangelho dos livros
  • Os negros
  • Carne para canhão
  • Curiango
  • A sombra de Júlio Frank (romance)
  • Colônia Cecília (romance)
  • O Retrato de Valentina (1947) (romance)
  • A Marcha (romance)
  • O Menino Felipe (romance)
  • O Tesouro de Cananeia (contos)
  • A Vida de Paulo Eiró (crônicas)
  • São Paulo de meus Amores (crônicas)
  • Zanzalá (1938) (novela)
  • A Primeira Viagem (autobiografia)

External links

Afonso Schmidt's biography
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