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Paulo Lins. Paulo Lins. Foto by André Luiz D. Takahashi. [1] Paulo Lins (born January 11, 1958, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian author. Lins grew up in Rio de Janeiro and at the age of seven moved to the City of God favela. Lins's parents came from the impoverished northeastern region of Brazil, which prompted him to examine the racial profile ...
Jul 8, 2014 · The Brazilian author who wrote his way out of the favela. The author, poet and scriptwriter Paulo Lins was raised in the Cidade de Deus or ‘City of God’ in the 1960s and 1970s, and saw the Rio de Janeiro favela he lived in catapulted to notoriety by his own 1997 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Cidade de Deus was initially ...
Lins, a native of Rio, grew up in a wretched, crime-plagued housing project known as Ci-dade de Deus (“City of God”), originally created in the 1960s for displaced flood victims. “Everything that happened in that book is drawn from reality,” the author stated on the Latin America News Web site. His novel, first published in 1997, gave ...
Apr 26, 2003 · Profile of Paulo Lins, whose book City of God, and movie of same name, portray extreme violence and poverty of Rio's slums, where Lins grew up in public housing project in 1960's; interview; photo (M)
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Paulo Lins was born on June 11, 1958, in Rio de Janeiro. When he turned seven years’ old, he moved to the Cidada de deus favela (City of Gods). Favelas are known for being very dangerous, low class, and overly pack. Lins was lucky to escape the violence of the favelas and become a great writer. Lin’s father was a house painter and his ...
City of God. City of God ( Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 1997 semi- autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, about three young men and their lives in Cidade de Deus, a favela in Western Rio de Janeiro where Lins grew up. [1] It is the only novel by Lins that has been published. It took Lins 8 years to complete the book.
May 1, 2006 · City of God is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, about three young men and their lives in Cidade de Deus, a favela in Western Rio de Janeiro where Lins grew up. It is the only novel by Lins that has been published. It took Lins 8 years to complete the book. The novel was hailed by critics as one of the greatest works of contemporary Brazilian literature. It was made into a ...
