Fernando Sabino was a Brazil

Brazil

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ian writer and journalist.

Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...

, Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

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, where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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Sabino was the author of 50 books, as well as many short stories and essays. His first book was published in 1941, when he was just 18 years old. Sabino vaulted to national and international fame in 1956 with the novel A Time to Meet, the tale of three friends in the inland city of Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...

. The book was inspired by Sabino's life history.

Sabino also enjoyed commercial success with The Great Insane and The Naked Man, which were made into films.

Sabino considered friendship to be one of the most important things in life. His circle of friends included Hélio Pellegrino, Otto Lara Resende, Paulo Mendes Campos

Paulo Mendes Campos

Paulo Mendes Campos , was a Brazilian writer and journalist.Born in Minas Gerais, was the son of the physician and writer Mario Mendes Campos and D...

, Rubem Braga

Rubem Braga

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, Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...

, Vinicius de Moraes

Vinicius de Moraes

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, Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note...

, Mário de Andrade

Mário de Andrade

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, and Manuel Bandeira

Manuel Bandeira

Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator.Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...

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In the last ten years of his life, Sabino was distant from the media. Many of his close friends died before him. Two years before his death, Sabino was diagnosed with cancer. Following a prolonged illness, he died one day before his 81st birthday in his Rio de Janeiro home.

Partial bibliography

• "The Soul of Music," "Tit for Tat," "The Girl from Ipanema
  The Girl from Ipanema
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  ," and "I'm All Ears"
• "Sexual Inhibitions," "Prescriptions for Curing Passions," and "The Birthday Cake"
• "The Art of Saying No," The Brazilians
• O Grande Mentecapto
• A Time to Meet
• The Naked Man

"No fim, tudo dá certo. Se não deu, ainda não chegou ao fim." Fernando Sabino
Translation: "In the end, everything will be ok. If it's not ok, it's not yet the end." Fernando Sabino

Filmography - Writer

• Crônica da Cidade Amada (1964) (story) (segment Iniciada a Peleja)
• Homem Nu, O (1968 and 1997) (screenplay) (story)

... aka The Naked Man (International: English title)

• Faca de Dois Gumes (1989) (book)

... aka Two Edged Knife (USA)

• Grande Mentecapto, O (1989) (novel)