Domingos Olmpio Braga Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist, journalist and playwright, famous for his Naturalist novel LuziaHomem.
Olmpio was born in the city of Sobral, in the State of Cear, in 1857. Graduated in Law at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife, he exercised journalistic career in Recife, Belm and Rio de Janeiro, working for newspapers such as O Comrcio, Jornal do Commercio, Correio do Povo, Jos do Patrocnios A Cidade do Rio, Gazeta de Notcias and O Pas. Writing under the pen name Pojuc, he was the director of the periodic Os Anais, where he published many books under feuilleton form, such as O Almirante and the unfinished O Uirapuru.
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