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Manuel Ferreira Garcia Redondo
1854–1916
A lively figure in Brazilian letters, he moved easily between literature, journalism, teaching, and public life. He is remembered as a founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and as a writer whose work ranged from fiction and theater to historical writing.
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O Descobrimento do Brazil Prioridade dos Portugueses no Descobrimento da America
by Manuel Ferreira Garcia Redondo
About the author
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1854 and deceased in São Paulo in 1916, he built an unusually varied career as an engineer, journalist, professor, short-story writer, and playwright. Brazilian literary sources and the Academia Brasileira de Letras both identify him as one of the founders of the Academia, where he established Chair 24.
His career was not limited to one field. Reference sources describe him as active in the press and in education as well as in literature, and bibliographic records link his name to fiction, drama, and historical prose, including O Descobrimento do Brazil. That mix of practical professions and literary work helps explain the breadth of his reputation.
He also wrote under several pseudonyms, a detail that suggests a playful and versatile presence in nineteenth-century print culture. Today, he is chiefly of interest to readers curious about the many-sided world of Brazilian literary life at the turn of the twentieth century.