Luís Fernando Veríssimo

Luís Fernando Verissimo (September 26, 1936 – August 30, 2025) was a Brazilian writer. Verissimo was the son of Brazilian writer Érico Verissimo and lived with his father in the United States during his childhood. Best known for his crônicas and texts of humor, more precisely satire of manners, published daily in several Brazilian newspapers, Verissimo was also a cartoonist, translator, and television writer, playwright and novelist. He has also been advertising and newspaper copy desk. He was also a musician, having played saxophone in a few sets. With over 60 published titles, he was one of the most popular contemporary Brazilian writers.

Background Verissimo was a great fan of jazz, and played saxophone since 1995 in a band called Jazz 6, "the smallest sextet in the world", with five members. As a result, he attended primary part of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and completed high school at Roosevelt High School in Washington.

At 14, he produced with his sister, Clarissa, a periodical paper about his family hung in their bathroom; the work was called The Patentino ("patente" is the way toilets are known in Rio Grande do Sul).

Between 1962 and 1966, lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as a translator and copywriter, and where he met and married (1963) Lucia Helena Massa, his lifelong partner and mother of his three children (Fernanda, 1964, Mariana, 1967, and Pedro, 1970).

From 1975 to 1999 he drew the newspaper comic strip As Cobras [The Snakes], and from 1988 to 2017 the newspaper cartoon series Família Brasil.

Fame in Brazil and the gaucho culture of southern Brazil In 1981, the book "O Analista de Bagé", launched at the Book Fair of Porto Alegre, sold out its first edition in two days, becoming a bestseller around the country. The character, created (but unused) for a television comedy program with Jô Soares, was an orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst, but with the accent, the language and customs typical of the border of Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay and Argentina. The contradiction between the sophistication of psychoanalysis and the "rough" caricature of the gaucho of the border generated very funny situations, which Verissimo was able to explore with his talent in two books of short stories, a comic book (with drawings by Edgar Vasques) and an anthology.

In 1982 Verissimo began to publish a weekly page of humor in the magazine Veja, which would keep until 1989.

In 1986, he lived six months with his family in Rome, and covered the World Cup for Playboy magazine. In 1988, contracted by MPM Propaganda, he wrote his first novel, O Jardim do Diabo (The Devil's Garden).

New directions In 1999, Verissimo quit drawing As Cobras comic strips and changed publishers, switching from L&PM to Objetiva, which began republishing all his work. One of these anthologies, "As Mentiras que os Homens Contam" (The Lies that Men Tell) (2000), has sold over 350,000 copies. In 2004, in France, he received the Prix Deux Oceans Latin Culture Festival of Biarritz.

In 2006, Verissimo reached 70 years of age established as one of the greatest contemporary Brazilian writers, having sold a total of more than 5 million copies of his books. In 2008, his daughter Fernanda gave birth to his first granddaughter, Lucinda, who was born on the anniversary of the Sport Club Internacional, April 4.

A recent news piece reports that, in his life, the author has sold over 5.6 million books.

Death The artist died in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul at 0:40 BRT on August 30, 2025, around 27 days before his 89th birthday. Veríssimo had been hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Hospital Moinhos de Vento for about three weeks with pneumonia. He also had Parkinson’s disease and heart problems, having received a pacemaker in 2016. In 2021, he suffered a stroke, which left him with motor and communication difficulties.

Literary works Short stories A Grande Mulher Nua Amor brasileiro Aquele Estranho Dia que Nunca Chega A Mãe de Freud A Mesa Voadora A Mulher do Silva As Cobras em Se Deus existe que eu seja atingido por um raio" As Aventuras da Família Brasil, Parte II Novas Comédias da Vida Privada Peças Íntimas Separatismo; Corta Essa! Sexo na Cabeça Todas as comédias Zoeira A eterna privação do zagueiro absoluto Comédias para se ler na escola As mentiras que os homens contam Histórias brasileiras de verão Aquele estranho dia que nunca chega Banquete com os Deuses Novas Comédias para se ler na escola

A velhinha de Taubaté A versão dos afogados – Novas comédias da vida pública Comédias da Vida Privada Comédias da Vida Pública

Analista de Bagé Quadrinhos O Marido do Dr. Pompeu O Popular O Rei do Rock Orgias O Suicida e o Computador Outras do Analista de Bagé

Ed Mort O seqüestro o zagueiro central Com a Mão no Milhão Outras Histórias Procurando o Silva Disney World Blues

Novels Borges e os Orangotangos Eternos Gula – O Clube dos Anjos O Jardim do Diabo O opositor Os espiões

Poetry Poesia numa hora dessas?!