Alusio Tancredo Gonalves de Azevedo 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.
Azevedo was born in So Lus, to David Gonalves de Azevedo and Emlia Amlia Pinto de Magalhes. He was the younger brother of the famous playwright Artur Azevedo.
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