Luis Fernando Verissimo
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Luís Fernando Veríssimo (born September 26, 1936 in Porto Alegre
, Rio Grande do Sul
, Brazil
) is a Brazilian writer
.
Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo
and lived with his father in the United States
during his childhood.
Best known for his chronicles and texts of humor, more precisely satire of manners, published daily in several Brazilian newspapers, Verissimo is also a cartoonist, translator, and television writer, playwright and novelist. He has also been advertising and newspaper copy desk. He is also a musician, having played saxophone in a few sets. With over 60 published titles, is one of the most popular contemporary Brazilian writers.
, and plays saxophone
in a band called Jazz 6. Like many Brazilian intellectuals, he enjoys the culture of Rio de Janeiro
. Verissimo is a critic of right-wing politicians, especially the former president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso
.
Verissimo is fond of football, and a famous Sport Club Internacional
supporter. He has already written many texts about his passion for football.
Verissimo was married to Lúcia Helena Massa in 1964, and the couple has three children: Fernanda, a journalist, Mariana, a writer, and Pedro, a musician. He lives with his wife in Porto Alegre.
Born and raised in Porto Alegre, Luis Fernando lived most of his childhood and adolescence in the United States with his family, due to professional commitments undertaken by his father - a professor at UC Berkeley (1943-1945) and cultural director at the Organization of American States
in Washington (1953-1956). As a result, he attended primary part of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and completed high school at Roosevelt High School in Washington.
At 14 years he produced with her sister Clarissa and a cousin, a local periodical with news of family, which was hanged in the bathroom of the house and was called "The Patentino" ("patente" is the way toilet are known in Rio Grande do Sul).
During the time he lived in Washington, Verissimo developed his passion for jazz, and started studying saxophone and frequent trips to New York, attending performances of the greatest musicians of the era, including Charlie Parker
and Dizzy Gillespie
.
. Since 1960, he joined the musical group Renato and his Sextet, which featured dances professionally in the state capital, and was known as "the world's largest sextet," because it had nine members.
Between 1962 and 1966, lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as a translator and copywriter, and where he met and married (1963) with the Rio Lucia Helena Massa, his partner today, and mother of his three children (Fernanda, 1964 , Mariana, 1967, and Peter, 1970).
In 1967, again in his hometown, he began working in the newspaper Zero Hora
, first as a copy editor (copy desk). In 1969, after covering the holidays of columnist Sergio Jockymann and to showcase the quality and speed of the text, he went on to sign his own daily column in the newspaper. His first columns were about football, addressing the foundation of the Beira-Rio stadium and the games of the Internacional, his club. The same year he became editor of the advertising agency MPM Propaganda.
In 1970 he moved to the newspaper Folha da Manhã, where he held his daily column until 1975, writing about sport, cinema, literature, music, food, politics and behavior, always with irony and personal ideas, and short stories of humor which illustrated their views.
Created in 1971 with a group of friends in the press and publicity in Porto Alegre, the alternative weekly O Pato Macho, with texts of humor, cartoons, stories and interviews, and circulated throughout the year in the city.
, is an orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst, but with the accent, the language and customs typical of the border of Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay and Argentina . The contradiction between the sophistication of psychoanalysis and "rough" caricature of the gaucho
of the border has generated very funny situations, which Verissimo was able to explore talent in two books of short stories, a comic book (with drawings by Edgar Vasques) and an anthology.
In 1982 Verissimo began to publish a weekly page of humor in the magazine Veja, which would keep until 1989.
In 1983, the tenth volume of unpublished chronicles, has launched a new character that would also make great success, A Velhinha de Taubaté ( The Old Lady of Taubaté
), defined as "the only person who still believes in government." The naive character, who gave to his pet cat the name of the spokesman for President-General Figueiredo, marked the decline of the Brazilian military government, which was almost completed 20 years. But years later, in a democracy, Verissimo would revive the Old Lady of Taubaté, mocking the credibility of civilian presidents, especially Fernando Collor and Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Throughout the 1980s, Verissimo has established itself as a phenomenon of popularity rare among Brazilian writers, keeping weekly columns in several newspapers and throwing at least one book a year, always on the bestseller lists, and writing sitcoms for TV Globo.
In 1986, he lived six months with his family in Rome, and covered the World Cup for Playboy magazine. In 1988, contracted by MPM Propaganda, he wrote his first novel, The Devil's Garden.
In 2003, he decided to reduce its workload in the press, from six to just two columns a week, now published in Zero Hora, O Globo and O Estado de Sao Paulo.
From requests generated by publishers, Verissimo no longer the "great writer of short texts" and amended a series of novels and romances: "Gula- O Clube dos Anjos" (1998)- Objetiva , " Borges e os Orangotangos Eternos (Borges and the Eternal Orangutans)" (2000), to the collection " Literatura e Morte (Literature and Death)" of Cia. das Letras
, "O opositor (The Opposable) "(2004) to the collection " Cinco dedos de Prosa (Five Fingers of Prose) " Objetiva, "A Décima Segunda Noite (The Twelfth Night) "(2006) for the collection "Devorando Shakespeare (Devouring Shakespeare) " , and even "Sport Club Internacional, Autobiografia de uma Paixão (Autobiography of a Passion)" (2004), for collection "Camisa 13" of Ediouro.
In 2003, a cover story in Veja magazine said Verissimo as "the writer's best-selling books in Brazil." At the same time, the English version of "Clube dos Anjos" ("The Club of Angels") is chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of the year.
In 2004, in France, he received the Prix Deux Oceans Latin Culture Festival of Biarritz.
In 2006, Verissimo reached 70 years of age established as one of the greatest contemporary Brazilian writers, having sold a total of more than 5 million copies of his books. In 2008, her daughter Fernanda gave birth to his first granddaughter, Lucinda, born on the anniversary of the Sport Club Internacional, April 4.
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
, Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
) is a Brazilian writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
.
Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo
Erico Verissimo
Erico Verissimo was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. His father, Sebastião Veríssimo da Fonseca, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, met financial ruin during his son's youth...
and lived with his father in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
during his childhood.
Best known for his chronicles and texts of humor, more precisely satire of manners, published daily in several Brazilian newspapers, Verissimo is also a cartoonist, translator, and television writer, playwright and novelist. He has also been advertising and newspaper copy desk. He is also a musician, having played saxophone in a few sets. With over 60 published titles, is one of the most popular contemporary Brazilian writers.
Personal life
Verissimo is a great fan of jazzJazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, and plays saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
in a band called Jazz 6. Like many Brazilian intellectuals, he enjoys the culture of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
. Verissimo is a critic of right-wing politicians, especially the former president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso – also known by his initials FHC – was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...
.
Verissimo is fond of football, and a famous Sport Club Internacional
Sport Club Internacional
Sport Club Internacional is a Brazilian football team and multi-sport club from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, founded on April 4, 1909, and are one of the only five clubs to have never been relegated, along with Santos, São Paulo, Flamengo and Cruzeiro. They play in red shirts, white shorts and...
supporter. He has already written many texts about his passion for football.
Verissimo was married to Lúcia Helena Massa in 1964, and the couple has three children: Fernanda, a journalist, Mariana, a writer, and Pedro, a musician. He lives with his wife in Porto Alegre.
Born and raised in Porto Alegre, Luis Fernando lived most of his childhood and adolescence in the United States with his family, due to professional commitments undertaken by his father - a professor at UC Berkeley (1943-1945) and cultural director at the Organization of American States
Organization of American States
The Organization of American States is a regional international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States...
in Washington (1953-1956). As a result, he attended primary part of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and completed high school at Roosevelt High School in Washington.
At 14 years he produced with her sister Clarissa and a cousin, a local periodical with news of family, which was hanged in the bathroom of the house and was called "The Patentino" ("patente" is the way toilet are known in Rio Grande do Sul).
During the time he lived in Washington, Verissimo developed his passion for jazz, and started studying saxophone and frequent trips to New York, attending performances of the greatest musicians of the era, including Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
Charles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....
and Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
.
Early Works
Back in Porto Alegre in 1956, he began working in the art department of Editora GloboEditora Globo
The Editora Globo is a respected Brazilian publishing house, property of Fundação Roberto Marinho. It began as a bookstore called Livraria do Globo, created in Porto Alegre, in December 1883, by Laudelino Pinheiro de Barcellos and Saturnino Alves Pinto.-History:The bookstore "Livraria do Globo"...
. Since 1960, he joined the musical group Renato and his Sextet, which featured dances professionally in the state capital, and was known as "the world's largest sextet," because it had nine members.
Between 1962 and 1966, lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as a translator and copywriter, and where he met and married (1963) with the Rio Lucia Helena Massa, his partner today, and mother of his three children (Fernanda, 1964 , Mariana, 1967, and Peter, 1970).
In 1967, again in his hometown, he began working in the newspaper Zero Hora
Zero Hora
Zero Hora is a Brazilian newspaper based in the city of Porto Alegre, the seventh biggest of the country. It is edited by Grupo RBS.- Inquiry on Grupo RBS oligopoly / monopoly practicing:...
, first as a copy editor (copy desk). In 1969, after covering the holidays of columnist Sergio Jockymann and to showcase the quality and speed of the text, he went on to sign his own daily column in the newspaper. His first columns were about football, addressing the foundation of the Beira-Rio stadium and the games of the Internacional, his club. The same year he became editor of the advertising agency MPM Propaganda.
In 1970 he moved to the newspaper Folha da Manhã, where he held his daily column until 1975, writing about sport, cinema, literature, music, food, politics and behavior, always with irony and personal ideas, and short stories of humor which illustrated their views.
Created in 1971 with a group of friends in the press and publicity in Porto Alegre, the alternative weekly O Pato Macho, with texts of humor, cartoons, stories and interviews, and circulated throughout the year in the city.
Fame in Brazil and the gaucho culture of southern Brazil
In 1981, the book "O Analista de Bagé", launched at the Book Fair of Porto Alegre, sold out its first edition in two days, becoming a bestseller around the country. The character, created (but unused) for a television comedy program with Jô SoaresJô Soares
José Eugênio Soares, best known as Jô Soares is a Brazilian comedian, talk show host, author, theatrical producer, director, actor, painter and musician. Soares was born in Rio de Janeiro...
, is an orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst, but with the accent, the language and customs typical of the border of Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay and Argentina . The contradiction between the sophistication of psychoanalysis and "rough" caricature of the gaucho
Gaucho
Gaucho is a term commonly used to describe residents of the South American pampas, chacos, or Patagonian grasslands, found principally in parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Chile, and Southern Brazil...
of the border has generated very funny situations, which Verissimo was able to explore talent in two books of short stories, a comic book (with drawings by Edgar Vasques) and an anthology.
In 1982 Verissimo began to publish a weekly page of humor in the magazine Veja, which would keep until 1989.
In 1983, the tenth volume of unpublished chronicles, has launched a new character that would also make great success, A Velhinha de Taubaté ( The Old Lady of Taubaté
Taubaté
Taubaté is a city in the State of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil. Its strategic geographical location, between the two most important Brazilian cities , being crossed by Presidente Dutra Highway which connects the two megacities, and between high, cold mountains and the Atlantic Ocean has...
), defined as "the only person who still believes in government." The naive character, who gave to his pet cat the name of the spokesman for President-General Figueiredo, marked the decline of the Brazilian military government, which was almost completed 20 years. But years later, in a democracy, Verissimo would revive the Old Lady of Taubaté, mocking the credibility of civilian presidents, especially Fernando Collor and Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Throughout the 1980s, Verissimo has established itself as a phenomenon of popularity rare among Brazilian writers, keeping weekly columns in several newspapers and throwing at least one book a year, always on the bestseller lists, and writing sitcoms for TV Globo.
In 1986, he lived six months with his family in Rome, and covered the World Cup for Playboy magazine. In 1988, contracted by MPM Propaganda, he wrote his first novel, The Devil's Garden.
New Directions
In 1999, Verissimo quitted drawing As Cobras comic strips and changed publishers, switching L&PM by Objetiva, which began republishing all his work. One of these anthologies, " As Mentiras que os homens contam" (The Lies that men tell) (2000), has sold over 350,000 copies.In 2003, he decided to reduce its workload in the press, from six to just two columns a week, now published in Zero Hora, O Globo and O Estado de Sao Paulo.
From requests generated by publishers, Verissimo no longer the "great writer of short texts" and amended a series of novels and romances: "Gula- O Clube dos Anjos" (1998)- Objetiva , " Borges e os Orangotangos Eternos (Borges and the Eternal Orangutans)" (2000), to the collection " Literatura e Morte (Literature and Death)" of Cia. das Letras
Cia. das Letras
The Companhia das Letras is a Brazilian publisher founded in 1986 with headquarters in Sao Paulo.Founded by Luiz Schwarcz, who had experience working in Publisher Brasiliense, and his wife Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, had as one of the first 4 books To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson, sales success...
, "O opositor (The Opposable) "(2004) to the collection " Cinco dedos de Prosa (Five Fingers of Prose) " Objetiva, "A Décima Segunda Noite (The Twelfth Night) "(2006) for the collection "Devorando Shakespeare (Devouring Shakespeare) " , and even "Sport Club Internacional, Autobiografia de uma Paixão (Autobiography of a Passion)" (2004), for collection "Camisa 13" of Ediouro.
In 2003, a cover story in Veja magazine said Verissimo as "the writer's best-selling books in Brazil." At the same time, the English version of "Clube dos Anjos" ("The Club of Angels") is chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of the year.
In 2004, in France, he received the Prix Deux Oceans Latin Culture Festival of Biarritz.
In 2006, Verissimo reached 70 years of age established as one of the greatest contemporary Brazilian writers, having sold a total of more than 5 million copies of his books. In 2008, her daughter Fernanda gave birth to his first granddaughter, Lucinda, born on the anniversary of the Sport Club Internacional, April 4.
Quotes
"The Americans saved the world ... And then kept it." - About the American intervention in the Second World War.
"My inspiration muse is my deadline."
Short stories
- A Grande Mulher Nua
- Amor brasileiro
- Aquele Estranho Dia que Nunca Chega
- A Mãe de Freud
- A Mesa Voadora
- A Mulher do Silva
- As Cobras em Se Deus existe que eu seja atingido por um raio”
- As Aventuras da Família Brasil, Parte II
- Novas Comédias da Vida Privada
- Peças Íntimas
- Separatismo; Corta Essa!
- Sexo na Cabeça
- Todas as comédias
- Zoeira
- A eterna privação do zagueiro absoluto
- Comédias para se ler na escola
- As mentiras que os homens contam
- Histórias brasileiras de verão
- Aquele estranho dia que nunca chega
- Banquete com os Deuses
- Novas Comédias para se ler na escola
A velhinha de Taubaté
- A versão dos afogados – Novas comédias da vida pública
- Comédias da Vida Privada
- Comédias da Vida Pública
Analista de Bagé
- Quadrinhos
- O Marido do Dr. Pompeu
- O Popular
- O Rei do Rock
- Orgias
- O Suicida e o Computador
- Outras do Analista de Bagé
Ed Mort
- O seqüestro o zagueiro central
- Com a Mão no Milhão
- Outras Histórias
- Procurando o Silva
- Disneyworld Blues
Novels
- Borges e os Orangotangos Eternos
- Gula - O Clube dos Anjos
- O Jardim do Diabo
- O opositor