In memory of

Machado de Assis

Novelist, founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters

Born: 21 June 1839
Died: 29 September 1908
Lived: 69 years
Resting place: Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The grandson of freed slaves, epileptic and a stutterer, Machado left school early and taught himself French, English and Greek while working as a typesetter. He became the finest novelist Brazil has produced.

"The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas", narrated by a dead man, was published in 1881 and reads as though it were written a century later. He founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters and presided over it until his death.

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