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Machado de Assis
Machado de Assis was a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer and poet, widely regarded as the greatest writer in Brazilian literature. Born in Rio de Janeiro to a poor family of mixed descent, he rose to fame with ironic and psychologically subtle novels such as The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) and Dom Casmurro (1899). He was the founding president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1897.
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