![]() ![]() He traveled nationwide giving “performance lectures” in which he would tell stories, anecdotes, and jokes and display various art forms showing the vastness of Brazil's culture. The author's charming, friendly personality made him a beloved figure everywhere in Brazil. His works include dozens of other plays, novels, and poetry, most of which were translated into other languages including French, German, Spanish, English, and Dutch. The play earned film adaptations, in 19, and was also rendered as a TV mini-series. It tells the tale of two friends, Chicó and João Grilo (John Cricket), in Northeastern Brazil. ![]() His most popular piece of work, O Auto da Compadecida (translated as The Rogue's Trial), was published in 1955. The following year, he wrote his first play. In 1946, he founded the Pernambuco Students' Theatre Group alongside his friend, Hermilo Borba Filho. Since 1989, he held Chair 32 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.Īriano Suassuna was born in João Pessoa, capital of the neighboring state of Paraíba, in 1927, and moved to Recife as a teenager. There he lived most of his life and produced his vast work filled with vivid depictions of Northeast Brazil and its people. The writer, poet and playwright Ariano Suassuna died on Wednesday (July 23) from a hemorrhagic stroke, after two days in a hospital in Recife, Pernambuco. ![]()
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