author
Pinto da Rocha
d. 1930
A Brazilian man of letters whose career ranged across journalism, politics, drama, and history, he wrote with the breadth of someone deeply involved in public life. His work reflects the cultural and political world of Brazil in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Talitha: evangelho em tres actos
by Pinto da Rocha
About the author
Born in Rio Grande, in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Artur Pinto da Rocha was remembered as a remarkably versatile figure: writer, journalist, poet, dramatist, historian, magistrate, and political leader. Sources agree on his broad public and literary career, though they do not all match on his exact birth year; he died in Rio de Janeiro in 1930.
He studied law in Coimbra and went on to build a life that moved between the courtroom, the press, and literature. Reference sources describe him as active in journalism and public affairs as well as in creative writing, which helps explain the wide range of subjects and forms associated with his name.
For readers coming to him through books today, the appeal is that mix of literary ambition and lived experience. He belonged to a generation of Brazilian authors whose writing was closely tied to civic debate, regional identity, and the intellectual life of their time.