Francisco de Assis Almeida Brasil

Francisco de Assis Almeida Brasil (18 February 1932 – 28 November 2021), better known as Assis Brasil, was a Brazilian writer and member of the Academia Piauiense de Letras.

Biography He was born in Parnaíba. A novelist, chronicler, essayist, Piauí writer and journalist, he also worked as a literary critic, intensely, in the Brazilian press, especially in Jornal do Brasil, Diário de Notícias, Correio da Manhã and O Globo, as well as in the magazines O Cruzeiro, Enciclopédia Bloch and Revista do Livro.

He published over a hundred works, among them Beira Rio Beira Vida, 1965; A Filha do Meio Quilo, 1966; O Salto do Cavalo Cobridor and Pacamão (Tetralogia Puiense); Os que Bebem como os Cães (Ciclo do Terror); Nassau, Sangue e Amor nos Trópicos, Jovita and Tiradentes (historical novels).

He died on 28 November 2021, at the age of 92, in Teresina.

Awards

In 2004, the country's main literary award: the Prêmio Machado de Assis, offered by the Brazilian Academy of Letters to Brazilian writers for their body of work. His literary quality and intense and uninterrupted production also led him to the Academia Piauiense de Letras, where he occupied the chair 36, and to be cited as an important author of the so-called Generation of 45. In 2012, he received the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the Federal University of Piauí.