João Ubaldo Ribeiro
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Bahia
Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size...
on January 23, 1941. In the English speaking world his An Invincible Memory has been highly praised. http://google.com/search?q=cache:WBGut_KJVAsJ:iteba.hanover.edu/Text%2520Files/Study%2520Resources.pdf+%22Jo%C3%A3o+Ubaldo+Ribeiro%22+%22An+Invincible+Memory%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&lr=lang_en http://books.guardian.co.uk/internationalwriting/story/0,6194,345864,00.html Several of his books and short tales have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil.He has been married three times and has four adult offspring.
Novels
|trans_title=September has not Sense|date=1968}}|date=1971|trans_title=Sergeant Getúlio}}- Viva o povo brasileiro (Hail the Brazilian People, self-translated as An Invincible Memory) - 1984
- O sorriso do lagarto (The Smile of the Lizard) - 1989
- O feitiço da Ilha do Pavão (The Sorcery of the Peacock Island) - 1997
- A casa dos Budas ditosos (The House of the Blessed Buddhas) - 1999
- Diário do Farol (Lighthouse Diary) - 2002