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Gonçalves Dias

1823 - 1864

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Antônio Gonçalves Dias (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtonju ɡõˈsawviz ˈdʒiɐs]; August 10, 1823 – November 3, 1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as "Indianism", he is famous for writing "Canção do exílio" (arguably the most well-known poem of Brazilian literature), the short narrative poem I-Juca-Pirama, the unfinished epic Os Timbiras, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would award him posthumously with the title of national poet of Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gonçalves Dias has received more than 104,782 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gonçalves Dias is the 4,618th most popular writer (down from 4,226th in 2019), the 508th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gonçalves Dias ranks 4,618 out of 7,302. Before him are Ronald Knox, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Javier Cercas, Peter Carey, Gordon Willis, and Jorge Ibargüengoitia. After him are Anita Loos, Agnes Miegel, Robert Lowell, Staka Skenderova, Eugenio Espejo, and Łukasz Górnicki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Gonçalves Dias ranks 64. Before him are Charlotte Mary Yonge, Emilio Arrieta, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, John Evans, and Daniel Harrwitz. After him are Ernest Reyer, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Joseph Leidy, Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, and William M. Tweed. Among people deceased in 1864, Gonçalves Dias ranks 59. Before him are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Simonas Daukantas, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Hermann, Prince of Wied, Walter Savage Landor, and Anna Harrison. After him are David Sassoon, Roger B. Taney, Rudolf Wagner, Alexander Vostokov, José Justo Corro, and Adelaide Anne Procter.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Gonçalves Dias ranks 508 out of 2,236. Before him are Luiz Adriano (1987), Renata Sorrah (1947), Pixinguinha (1897), Rafinha (1985), Eike Batista (1956), and Juninho Paulista (1973). After him are George Yonashiro (1950), Canário (1934), Eliane Giardini (1952), Juan (1979), Márcio Santos (1969), and Caio Júnior (1965).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Gonçalves Dias ranks 25. Before him are Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923), Moacyr Scliar (1937), Castro Alves (1847), Nélida Piñon (1937), Gregório de Matos (1636), and Rachel de Queiroz (1910). After him are Manuel Bandeira (1886), Graciliano Ramos (1892), Lygia Bojunga Nunes (1932), Olavo Bilac (1865), Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831), and João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920).

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