Aníbal Monteiro Machado

Place: Sabará

Born: 1894

Death: 1964

Biography:

Aníbal Monteiro Machado was a Brazilian writer, football player, professor, and theater personality. He was born in Sabará, Minas Gerais, Brazil on December 9, 1894 and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 20, 1964. He made his secondary studies in Belo Horizonte and studied law in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, where he graduated in 1917. He then became a history teacher in a state college in Minas Gerais and a critic of fine arts in the Diário de Minas, where he worked with Carlos Drummond de Andrade and João Alphonsus de Guimaraens. In the early 1920s, he participated in the collective novel O capote do guarda, published in the Estado de Minas, directed by Mário Brant. He then became a public prosecutor in Minas Gerais and in Rio de Janeiro, before becoming a literature teacher at the Colégio Pedro II. He also held a bureaucratic position in the Ministry of Education and Culture. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the author of several books, including 'O homem que inventou o amor' (1927), 'O homem que inventou a morte' (1937), and 'O homem que inventou a noite' (1947).