João Ubaldo Ribeiro
João Ubaldo Ribeiro Osório Pimental ( born January 23, 1941 in Itaparica, Bahia) is a Brazilian writer.
Life
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. In 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 não faz sentido Setembro (German " September makes no sense ").
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, his academic career back on 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).
1971 Sargento Getúlio his novel was published, with him made his breakthrough as a writer. In 1974, out of his book Vencecavalo eo outro povo (German "horse slayer and the other" ). In 1980, Ribeiro his third marriage with Berenice Batella with which he in turn has 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 lives in Rio de Janeiro.
He has lived as a participant of the Berlin Artists Program of the DAAD 1990/91 in Berlin. He has held in several newspaper articles and then a Brazilian in Berlin a selection of these texts in the book His experience this year ( Original: To brasileiro em Berlim ) summarized.
2008 Ribeiro received the Prémio Camões, the most important Portuguese-speaking literary prize.
Works
His works are mostly settled in his native Bahia and are often embedded in local stories and legends. Ribeiro can be very impressive describe the moods and the people of his homeland. Often his works have a slightly surreal character, which convincingly reinforce the situations in which there are the doer. Ribeiro can thus also to give an insight into the temperament of Bahia. He is assigned to the magical realism, a Latin American style of literature is its main representative of Gabriel García Márquez. Another of his works is based on autobiographical circumstances, eg " A Brazilian in Berlin". Ribeiro is one of the greatest Brazilian writer.
- The Holy One, who did not believe in God. ( Original: O que não santo acreditava em Deus )
- Sargento Getulio. ( Original: Sargento Getúlio ) 1988
- Brazil Brazil. ( Original: Viva o povo brasileiro ) 1988
- The smile of the lizard. ( Original: O sorriso do lagarto ) 1994
- Life and passion of Pandonar the Cruel. ( Original: Vida e paixão de Pandomar, O cruel ) 1994
- The Miracle Peacock Island. ( Original: O Feitiço da Ilha do Pavão ) 2000