Adonias Filho

Adonias Filho (born Nov. 27, 1915, Itajuípe, Brazil—died Aug. 2, 1990, Ilhéus) was a novelist, essayist, journalist, and literary critic whose works of fiction embrace universal themes within the provincial setting of Brazil’s rural northeast. His literary career began in the early 1930s under the aegis of the Neo-Catholic writers’ group (Tasso da Silveira and Andrade Murici, among others) of Rio de Janeiro. Until the late 1940s he dedicated his energies principally to journalism in...