João Ubaldo Ribeiro
| João Ubaldo Ribeiro | |
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| Born |
January 23, 1941 Itaparica, Bahia |
| Died | July 18, 2014 (aged 73) Rio de Janeiro |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
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João Ubaldo Ribeiro (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2014) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short tales have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, being elected in 1994. At the time of his death many considered him to be Brazil's greatest contemporary novelist.
Ribeiro was the first of three children of the couple Manoel Ribeiro and Maria Felipa Osório Pimental. As Ribeiro was two months old, the family moved to Aracaju in Sergipe. Early on, he began to be interested in literature. From 1955 he attended the Colégio da Bahia, along with Glauber Rocha, with whom he became friends in 1956.
In 1957 he was working for local newspapers as a journalist for the first time. He started in 1958 at the Universidade Federal da Bahia to study Law. During this time he published several magazines and journals culture together with Glauber Rocha. 1959 his work "Lugar e circunstancia" was published (Eng. "Place and Circumstance") in an anthology of stories from Bahia. Ribeiro 1960 married his first wife, Maria Beatriz Moreira Caldas, a fellow student. They were divorced nine years later. In 1963 he wrote his first novel Setembro não faz sentido.
In 1964 Ribeiro left the country for political reasons and went to the United States to study economics. But in 1965 he returned to Brazil and lectured in political science at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. After six years, he was, however, back on his academic career and went back to journalism. In 1969 he married the historian Monica Maria Roters, with whom he has two daughters: Emilia (b. 1970) and Manuela (b. 1972).
In 1971 his novel Sargento Getúlio was published, with which he made his breakthrough as a writer. In 1974, his book Vencecavalo e o outro povo came out. In 1980, Ribeiro had his third marriage with Berenice Batella with whom he had two children, Bento (born 1981) and Francisca (b. 1983). In 1981 he went, along with his family, a scholarship to Lisbon. There he writes for the magazine Caretta.
Since his return to Brazil, he lived in Rio de Janeiro.
He has lived in Berlin between 1990/91 as a participant of the Berlin Artists Program of the DAAD . He has written in several newspaper articles and then a selection of these texts telling his experiences in the city was summarized in the book Um Brasileiro em Berlim.
In 1994 Ribeiro was inducted to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, occupying the seat 34.
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