Domingos Olímpio

Domingos Olímpio

A photograph depicting Olímpio
Born Domingos Olímpio Braga Cavalcanti
(1851-09-18)18 September 1851
Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
Died 7 October 1906(1906-10-07) (aged 55)
Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pen name Pojucã
Occupation diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, lawyer
Nationality Brazilian
Alma mater Faculdade de Direito do Recife
Literary movement Naturalism
Notable works Luzia-Homem

Domingos Olímpio Braga Cavalcanti (September 18, 1851 – October 7, 1906) was a Brazilian novelist, journalist and playwright, famous for his Naturalist novel Luzia-Homem.

Life

Olímpio was born in the city of Sobral, in the State of Ceará, in 1857. Graduated in Law at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife, he exercised journalistic career in Recife, Belém and Rio de Janeiro, working for newspapers such as O Comércio, Jornal do Commercio, Correio do Povo, José do Patrocínio's A Cidade do Rio, Gazeta de Notícias and O País. Writing under the pen name Pojucã, he was the director of the periodic Os Anais, where he published many books under feuilleton form, such as O Almirante and the unfinished O Uirapuru.

He also lived with his family in the United States, working at the Brazilian embassy in Washington during the Grover Cleveland government, when the Brazilian borders with Argentina were fixed. Two of his seven children were born during this mission.

Olímpio would try to join the Brazilian Academy of Letters, but Mário de Alencar was accepted in his place instead. Only Olavo Bilac would support Olímpio in his attempt.

Works

Novels

Theatre plays

Miscellaneous

References

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