Rubem Braga was a notable Brazil

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ian writer of short stories

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. He was born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim

Cachoeiro de Itapemirim

Cachoeiro de Itapemirim is the name of a municipality and of its capital, located in the south of Espírito Santo, Brazil, on the banks of the Itapemirim river. It is the economic hub of southern Espírito Santo, being the most important producer of marble and granite in Brazil. Home to one of the...

 city, state of Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo

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, on January 12, 1913.

Braga was raised in his hometown, but at an early age was sent to the city of Niterói

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 by his parents, to live with relatives. He attended law school

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 in Rio de Janeiro

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, but graduated in Minas Gerais

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, in the year of 1932, after having acted as a field reporter for the Diários Associados

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 during the Revolução Constitucionalista.

He was a correspondent in Italy

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 for the Brazilian newspaper Diário Carioca during World War II

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. He subsequently returned to Brazil, taking definitive residence in Rio de Janeiro. Braga was arrested several times by the Nationalist

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 military government

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 of the time.

His first book O Conde e o Passarinho was published in 1936, when he was 22. He is one of few Brazilian writers to get recognition by writing short stories. Braga founded, together with Fernando Sabino

Fernando Sabino

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 and Otto Lara Resende, the book publisher Editora Sabiá.

As a journalist, Braga was a reporter, writer

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 and editor

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 for newspapers and magazine

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s from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo

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, Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

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 and Bahia

Bahia

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. In 1953 he was nominated the Brazilian "Chefe do Escritório Comercial" in Chile

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, due to his frindship with president Café Filho. In 1961 he was appointed as Brazilian embassor to Morocco

Morocco

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 by president Jânio Quadros

Jânio Quadros

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. During his last years of life he worked for Rede Globo

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. Braga died on December 19, 1990.

Chronicles

• O Conde e o Passarinho (The Count and the Bird, 1936)
• O Morro do Isolamento (The Mount of Isolation, 1944)
• Com a FEB na Itália (With FEB in Italy, 1945)
• Um Pé de Milho (A Corn Stalk, 1948)
• O Homem Rouco (The Grumbling Man, 1949)
• 50 Crônicas Escolhidas (50 Selected Stories, 1951)
• Três Primitivos (Three Primitives, 1954)
• A Borboleta Amarela (The Yellow Butterfly, 1955)
• A Cidade e a Roça (The City and the Countryside1957)
• 100 Crônicas Escolhidas (100 Selected Stories, 1958)
• Ai de ti, Copacabana (1960)
• O Conde e o Passarinho e O Morro do Isolamento (1961)
• Crônicas de Guerra - Com a FEB na Itália (War Chronicles - With FEB in Italy, 1964)
• A Cidade e a Roça e Três Primitivos (1964)
• A Traição das Elegantes (The Betrayal of the Elegants, 1967)
• As Boas Coisas da Vida (The Good Things in Life, 1988)
• O Verão e as Mulheres (The Summer and Women, 1990)
• 200 Crônicas Escolhidas (200 Selected Stories)
• Casa dos Braga: Memória de Infância (House of the Braga: Childhood Memories)
• Uma Fada no Front (A Fairy at the Front)
• Histórias do Homem Rouco (Tales of the Grumbling Man)
• Os Melhores Contos de Rubem Braga (The Best Tales of Rubem Braga)
• O Menino e o Tuim (The Boy and the Tuim)
• Recado de Primavera (Spring Note)
• Um Cartão de Paris (A Postcard From Paris)
• Pequena Antologia do Braga (Small Anthology of the Braga)
• Casa dos Braga (House of the Braga)