Cícero Sandroni

Cícero Augusto Ribeiro Sandroni (26 February 1935 – 17 June 2025) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was born in São Paulo and became a journalist in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked for newspapers such as O Globo and Correio da Manhã and the news magazine Manchete. He also worked in publishing and in broadcast media.

Career Sandroni wrote a number of books, among them Cosme Velho: o rio das letras do Rio and a biography of fellow journalist Carlos Heitor Cony.

Sandroni was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2004.

Death Sandroni died in Rio de Janeiro on 17 June 2025, at the age of 90.

Works The Devil Only Arrives at Noon, short stories, Nova Fronteira Publishing, 1985. Glass in Brazil, historical essay, Objetiva Publishing, 1989. Austregésilo de Athayde, the Century of a Liberal, Agir Publishing, 1998. Cosme Velho, literary essay about the Cosme Velho neighborhood, Relume Dumará Publishing, 1999. 50 Years of O Dia, newspaper history, 2002 The Fish of Amarna, novel, Record, 2003 Batman Didn't Go to Búzios, 7 Letras, 2016