Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis was born on Jun 21, 1839 in Brazil. Machado de Assis's big-screen debut came with A Very Crazy Asylum directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos in 1970. Machado de Assis is known for What Is It Worth? directed by Sergio Bianchi, Ana Carbatti stars as Arminda and Cláudia Mello as Mônica Silveira. The upcoming new movie Machado de Assis plays is A Erva do Rato which will be released on Jun 26, 2009.

Founder and first president of Academia Brasileira de Letras. At 16 he published his first poem, "Ela", in "Marmota Fluminense" magazine. In 1858, he started to write for newspapers.His novels can be divided in Romantic and Realistic periods.In the Romantic period, he wrote: "Ressurreição" (1872), "A Mão e a Luva" (1874), "Helena" (1876) and "Iaiá Garcia" (1878).The following are the works from the Realistic and considered his best period: "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" (1881), "Quincas Borba" (1892), "Dom Casmurro" (1900) and "Memorial de Aires" (1908).Among his other works are poems, short stories, plays and theater and literature essays.