Artur Azevedo

• Name — Artur Azevedo • Birth Name — Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo • Born — 7 July 1855 • Birthplace — São Luís, Brazil • Died — 22 October 1908 • Place of death — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Occupation — Playwright, journalist, poet, chronicler, short story writer • Movement — Parnassianism • Notable Works — A Capital Federal • Relatives — Aluísio Azevedo

Azevedo was born in the city of São Luís, in Maranhão, to the Portuguese vice-consul in Brazil David Gonçalves de Azevedo and Emília Amália Pinto de Magalhães. He was the older brother of Naturalist novelist Aluísio Azevedo, famous for writing O Mulato, O Cortiço and Casa de Pensão. Azevedo would show a love for theatre since he was a child. Initially working as a salesman, he later got a job at the provincial administration, but was fired for writing satires against the government. He later found a job as an amanuensis in the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture. Later beginning a promissory career as a journalist, he worked for the newspapers A Estação, where he met Machado de Assis, and Novidades, where he met Alcindo Guanabara, Moreira Sampaio, Olavo Bilac and Coelho Neto. He died in 1908.

• Carapuças (1871) • Sonetos (1876)

• Amor por Anexins (1872) • A Filha de Maria Angu (1876) • Uma Véspera de Reis (1876) • A Pele do Lobo (1877) • Joia (1879) • O Anjo da Vingança (1882 – in partnership with Urbano Duarte de Oliveira) • O Escravocrata (1884 – in partnership with Urbano Duarte de Oliveira) • Almanjarra (1888) • Fritzmack (1889 – in partnership with Aluísio Azevedo) • A Capital Federal (1897) • O Badejo (1898) • Confidências (1898) • O Jagunço (1898) • Comeu! (1901) • O Retrato a Óleo (1902) • O Dote (1907)

• Contos Possíveis (1889) • Contos Fora de Moda (1894) • Contos Efêmeros (1897) • Contos em Verso (1898)