José de Alencar

Brazilian writer, lawyer, and politician (1829–1877)

José Martiniano de Alencar (1 May 1829 – 12 December 1877) was a Brazilian novelist, lawyer, politician, orator, and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo.

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