Aluísio Azevedo (1857 - 1913)

Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (14 April 1857 – 21 January 1913), was a Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat, playwright and short story writer. Initially a Romantic writer, he would later adhere to the Naturalist movement. He introduced the Naturalist movement in Brazil with the novel O Mulato, in 1881.