Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado (born 1926) is a contemporary Brazil

Brazil

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ian novelist. He was born in the state of Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

. Going against current trends in Brazilian literature, Dourado's works display much concern with literary form, with many obscure words and expressions. Minas Gerais is the setting for most of Dourado's books, resembling the early to mid-20th century Regionalist

Regionalism (literature)

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 trend in Brazilian literature. Most literary critics consider Dourado's work to have similarities to Baroque

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 literature.

In 1981, Dourado won the prestigious Goethe Prize

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In 2000, Dourado won the Camoens Prize, the most important literary prize in the Portuguese language

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Selected novels

• Uma vida em segredo 1964 - translated as A Hidden Life
• Ópera dos Mortos 1967 - translated as Voices of the Dead
• O Risco do Bordado 1970 - translated as Pattern for a Tapestry
• Os Sinos da Agonia 1974 - translated as Bells of Agony
• Opera dos Fantoches 1995
• As Imaginações Pecaminosas (Goethe Prize for Literature 1981)
• A Serviço Del-Rei 1984
• Confissões de Narciso 1997

Novels with English translations are posted above with their American titles.