José Lins do Rego Cavalcanti (July 3, 1901 in Pilar Paraíba

Paraíba

Paraíba Paraíba Paraíba (Tupi: pa'ra a'íba: "bad to navigation"; Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east...

 - September 12, 1957 in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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) was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle." These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English speaking world. Along with Graciliano Ramos

Graciliano Ramos

Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was a Brazilian Post-Modernist writer, politician and journalist. In most of his novels he depicts the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian sertão.-Life:Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was born in the city of Quebrangulo, in the Brazilian State...

 and Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado

Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...

 he stands as one of the greatest regionalist writers of Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 According to Otto Maria Carpeaux

Otto Maria Carpeaux

Otto Maria Carpeaux , born Otto Karpfen, was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.Carpeaux was born in 1900 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family, and lived there until 1939...

, José Lins was "the last of the story tellers". His first romance, Menino de Engenho

Menino de engenho

Menino de engenho is a novel written by the Brazilian writer José Lins do Rego. It was first published in 1932.-Synopsis:...

 ("Boy from the plantation"), was published with difficulty, but soon it got praised by the critics.

Novels

• Menino de Engenho
  Menino de engenho
  Menino de engenho is a novel written by the Brazilian writer José Lins do Rego. It was first published in 1932.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1932)
• Doidinho (1933)
• Bangüê (1934)
• O Moleque Ricardo (1935)
• Usina (1936)
• Pureza (1937)
• Pedra bonita (1938)
• Riacho doce (1939)
• Água-mãe (1941)
• Fogo morto (1943)
• Eurídice (1947)
• Cangaceiros (1953)
• Histórias da velha Totonha (1936)
• Gordos e magros (1942)
• Poesia e vida (1945)
• Homens, seres e coisas (1952)
• A casa e o homem (1954)
• Meus verdes anos (1956)
• Presença do Nordeste na literatura brasileira (1957)
• O vulcão e a fonte (1958)
• Dias idos e vividos (1981)

Films based on his Novels

• Pureza, directed by Chianca de Garcia (1940).
• Plantation Boy, directed by Valter Lima (1965), based on Menino de Engenho
  Menino de engenho
  Menino de engenho is a novel written by the Brazilian writer José Lins do Rego. It was first published in 1932.-Synopsis:...
  
  novel.
• The Last Plantation
  The Last Plantation
  The Last Plantation is a 1976 Brazilian drama film directed by Marcos Farias. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Joffre Soares* Othon Bastos* Rafael de Carvalho* Rodolfo Arena* Ângela Leal* Fernando Peixoto...
  
  , directed by Marcos Farias (1976), based on Fogo morto novel.

Translations

The "Academia Brasileira de Letras" points out that several Novels by José Lins do Rego have been translated internationally: Germany, Argentina, Spain, USA, France, England, Italy, Portugal, and Korea.

External links

• IMDB page
• Encyclopedia.com
• Site do Escritor, with bibliography and timeline of José Lins do Rego (in Portuguese)