Edmundo Donato was a popular Brazil

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ian writer, whose pseudonym

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 is Marcos Rey. He was born in São Paulo

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 city, state of São Paulo

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, in 1925. His brother Mário Donato is also a writer. He started writing short stories

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 when he was sixteen years old. His first book is a novella

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 which is called Um Gato no Triângulo, in 1953. He died in 1999 due to complications from a surgery.

External links

• Marcos Rey (Official Page) (in Portuguese)