Gilberto Braga
| Gilberto Braga | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Gilberto Tumscitz Braga November 1, 1945 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Telenovela's writer |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Spouse(s) | Edgar Moura Brasil (m. 2014) |
Gilberto Braga (Rio de Janeiro, 1 November 1945) is a Brazilian telenovela writer born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gilberto Tumscitz Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro, on November 1, 1945. He studied at the Instituto de Educação and the Colégio Pedro II. He studied at the Instituto de Educação and the Colégio Pedro II, and attended the College of Letters at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and began to work as teaching at the Aliança Francesa. Later he worked as a theater critic and cinema in newspaper O Globo.
Braga premiered on Rede Globo as an author in 1972 with an adaptation of The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas in Caso Especial starring Glória Menezes. His first telenovela was Corrida do Ouro (1974) writing with Lauro César Muniz and Janete Clair. Created from a newspaper report, the central plot was conducted by five female characters, starring Aracy Balabanian, Sandra Bréa, Renata Sorrah, Maria Luiza Castelli and Célia Biar, who needed to fulfill certain tasks to receive an inheritance.
In 1975, Gilberto Braga worked on adapting the novel Helena by Machado de Assis. Still displayed in black and white, the telenovela aired on TV Globo, the first inspired by a classic of Brazilian literature. In 1975, Braga claimed responsibility Bravo!, initially written by Janete Clair. The author moved away from the plot to work in Pecado Capital, in replacing Roque Santeiro, censured during the Brazilian military government in his debut.
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