Josué Montello

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Josué Montello (born August 21, 1917 in São Luís , † March 15, 2006 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian journalist , theater scholar and writer .

Montello was director of the Brazilian National Library and the Serviço Nacional de Teatro ; he wrote for the magazines Manchete and the Jornal do Brasil and worked for the government of Juscelino Kubitschek . From 1954 until his death he occupied cadeira 29 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras . From 1972 to 1973 Montello was Rector of the Federal University of Maranhão . His best-known works include Os tambores de São Luís (1965) and the trilogy Duas vezes perdida (1966), Glorinha (1977) and Perto da meia-noite (1985).

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Individual evidence

  1. Short biography of Josué Montello on the website of Fundação Joaquim Nabuco