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O Retrato, Volume 2
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Érico Lopes Veríssimo was born in Cruz Alta, Brazil. His parents where Sebastião Veríssimo da Fonseca and Abegahy Lopes. His father was a pharmacist, and his family was very wealthy until they went bankrupt. When he was almost ten years old he created a magazine called “Caricatura” (Caricature) where he drew and took little notes.
In 1920 he went to study at the Cruzeiro do Sul College, today known as the IPA College, leaving his girlfriend Vânia back at home. After finishing his studies his parents got separated and Érico went to live with his mother and brothers in his grandfather's house. Later Érico started working in his uncles’ warehouse and after that on the Banco Nacional do Comércio (Commerce National Bank). During that time he transcribed several books from quite a few authors like Euclides da Cunha and Machado de Assis.
In 1927 Érico Veríssimo met his future wife Mafalda Halfen Volpe, then fifteen years old. They got engaged in 1929 and in that same year he published his first text: “Chico: um Conto de Natal”(Chico: a Christmas Tale). In 1930 Veríssimo started working on the Globo Magazine and in his free time he got to know some intellectuals from that time like Mário Quintana and Augusto Meyer.
In 1931 Érico Veríssimo returns to Cruz Alta to marry Mafalda and they both went to live in Porto Alegre. They soon had children, Clarissa Veríssimo (1935) and Luis Fernando Veríssimo (1936) also a writter. They had a happy mariage.
Later Érico started translating books from english to portuguese, his first translation was O Sineiro (The ringer) by Edgar Wallace. He got promoted to chief of the magazine in 1932 and in the same year he publishes his debut work: Fantoches (Puppets).
In 1933 he published his first novel: Clarissa, quickly followed by Caminhos Cruzados in 1935. In 1936 he published two more books of the Clarissa saga: Música ao longe (Music in the distance) and Um lugar ao sol (A place in the sun). Música ao longe grant him the prize of Machado de Assis.
In 1941 he went to live in the USA for a while and returned there in 1943, this time with his family and for a two years period where he gave classes of Brazilian literature in the University of California, Berkeley.
After writing his Masterpiece, O Tempo e o Vento (The time and the wind), he went back to the USA so he could assume the position of director of the department of Cultural Affairs of the Organization of American States in Washington. His daughter Clarrisa married and American named David Jaffe, and the couple had three kids.
In 1961 he suffered his first myocardial infarction but after recovering he continued writing and in 1962 he went on a trip to Greece with his wife. In 1963 his mother died from lung cancer and his son got married in the next day to Lúcia Helena Massa, they also had three kids.
In November of 1975 an infarction forbids Érico to finish the second novel of his autobiography that was planed to be a trilogy and a romance named A Hora do Sétimo Anjo (The hour of the seventh angel).
In 1920 he went to study at the Cruzeiro do Sul College, today known as the IPA College, leaving his girlfriend Vânia back at home. After finishing his studies his parents got separated and Érico went to live with his mother and brothers in his grandfather's house. Later Érico started working in his uncles’ warehouse and after that on the Banco Nacional do Comércio (Commerce National Bank). During that time he transcribed several books from quite a few authors like Euclides da Cunha and Machado de Assis.
In 1927 Érico Veríssimo met his future wife Mafalda Halfen Volpe, then fifteen years old. They got engaged in 1929 and in that same year he published his first text: “Chico: um Conto de Natal”(Chico: a Christmas Tale). In 1930 Veríssimo started working on the Globo Magazine and in his free time he got to know some intellectuals from that time like Mário Quintana and Augusto Meyer.
In 1931 Érico Veríssimo returns to Cruz Alta to marry Mafalda and they both went to live in Porto Alegre. They soon had children, Clarissa Veríssimo (1935) and Luis Fernando Veríssimo (1936) also a writter. They had a happy mariage.
Later Érico started translating books from english to portuguese, his first translation was O Sineiro (The ringer) by Edgar Wallace. He got promoted to chief of the magazine in 1932 and in the same year he publishes his debut work: Fantoches (Puppets).
In 1933 he published his first novel: Clarissa, quickly followed by Caminhos Cruzados in 1935. In 1936 he published two more books of the Clarissa saga: Música ao longe (Music in the distance) and Um lugar ao sol (A place in the sun). Música ao longe grant him the prize of Machado de Assis.
In 1941 he went to live in the USA for a while and returned there in 1943, this time with his family and for a two years period where he gave classes of Brazilian literature in the University of California, Berkeley.
After writing his Masterpiece, O Tempo e o Vento (The time and the wind), he went back to the USA so he could assume the position of director of the department of Cultural Affairs of the Organization of American States in Washington. His daughter Clarrisa married and American named David Jaffe, and the couple had three kids.
In 1961 he suffered his first myocardial infarction but after recovering he continued writing and in 1962 he went on a trip to Greece with his wife. In 1963 his mother died from lung cancer and his son got married in the next day to Lúcia Helena Massa, they also had three kids.
In November of 1975 an infarction forbids Érico to finish the second novel of his autobiography that was planed to be a trilogy and a romance named A Hora do Sétimo Anjo (The hour of the seventh angel).
