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João Guimarães Rosa

Died in 1967

João Guimarães Rosa was born on 27 June 1908 in Cordisburgo, in Minas Gerais. He graduated in medicine in Belo Horizonte in 1930 and first practised in Itaguara, according to eBiografia. Having entered the diplomatic service, he was posted to Hamburg from 1938 to 1942, where his future wife, Aracy de Carvalho, according to the same source helped obtain visas for Jewish families, then to Bogotá and Paris. Elected in 1963 to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, he was received there only on 16 November 1967 and died in Rio three days later.

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