Paulo Lins
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Paulo Lins (* 1958 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian writer .
In 1997 he published his work Cidade de Deus ("The City of God"). The book was filmed in 2002 by Fernando Meirelles as City of God .
The novel The City of God describes the development of the eponymous favela Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro, which was built in the 1960s as a social housing estate and more and more became a slum area. Lins drew his material both from his own childhood - he grew up in the Cidade de Deus - and from an academic paper on favelas.
Works (selection)
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Cidade de deus . Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, Brazil 1997.
- German: The city of God. Novel . Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-50024-5 .
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Desde que o samba é samba .
- German: Since the Samba Samba , Roman. Droemer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-19968-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paulo Lins in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Paulo Lins in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Paulo Lins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Paulo Lins in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lins, Paulo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |