Adolfo Caminha

Place: Aracati

Born: 1867

Death: 1897

Biography:

Adolfo Ferreira Caminha was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel Bom-Crioulo, which deals with race and homosexuality. He was born on May 29, 1867, in Aracati, Brazil. Orphaned when he was 10 years old, he went to live with his uncle in Fortaleza. In 1883, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where another relative of his matriculated him in a naval school. He published his first book: Voos Incertos (Uncertain Flights) in 1886 and made an instruction trip to the United States. Caminha was working on journals such as the Jornal do Commercio, Gazeta de Notícias and O País, using the pseudonym Félix Guanabarino. He also published several novels including A Normalista, Bom-Crioulo, Cartas Literárias, and Tentação. Poor and debilitated by tuberculosis, he died at only 29 years old, leaving unfinished two novels.