Caio Fernando Abreu
Journalist, Author
1948 – 1996
Who was Caio Fernando Abreu?
Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu, best known as Caio Fernando Abreu is one of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of the 1970s and 1980s. Caio F., as he habitually signed his letters, was born in Santiago do Boqueirão in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in 1948, and died in Porto Alegre in 1996.
Abreu studied at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul but abandoned academia before graduating to write for pop culture magazines such as Revista Nova, Revista Manchete, Revista Veja and Revista Pop. He was a prolific journalist and literary writer. He wrote short stories, novels, chronicles or crônicas, drama, and he also maintained throughout his life an extensive correspondence with other writers and artists, family and friends.
In 1968 Abreu was put on the wanted list by the DOPS or the Departamento de Ordem Política e Social, a repressive branch of the Brazilian government that operated during years when the repressive military regime was in power, but found refuge at the country estate of Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst, located near the city of Campinas, in state of São Paulo. During the early '70s he spent one year in self-exile in Europe, spending time in England, Sweden, France, the Netherlands and in Spain.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1948
Santiago - Also known as
- Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu
- Caio F.
- Caio Abreu
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Profession
- Education
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
- Lived in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Died
- Feb 25, 1996
Porto Alegre
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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