Guilherme Figueiredo

Guilherme Figueiredo (1915–1997) was a Brazilian dramatist. He is best known for 1949's A God Slept Here and his play The Fox and the Grapes in 1953 about Aesop's life, which won various awards, including the Atur Azevedo prize from the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Professional Life Figueiredo debuted with the 1948 play Lady Godiva.

Before becoming a dramaturg, he had studied law in Rio de Janeiro, during which time he wrote cultural reviews for the local publications O Jornal and Diário de Notícias. Despite the recognition of his plays, he held a number of other professions, such as translator (primarily from French to Portuguese), professor of theater studies, library director, and artistic director of TV Tupi, a commercial television network.

Death and personal life He died at age 82 of cardiac arrest in May 1997. At the time of his death, he had been working on a memoir titled "A Bala Perdida".

Guilherme's brother, João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, was the 30th Brazilian president and final president of the military dictatorship that ended in 1985.