João Guimarães Rosa

João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967) was born in Cordisburgo, a small town in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the sertao region that would become the great subject of his fiction. He studied medicine and practiced as a country doctor before entering the Brazilian diplomatic service, which took him to Germany, France, and Colombia. His first collection of stories, Sagarana, published in 1946, announced an entirely new voice in Brazilian literature. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, published in 1956, confirmed him as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century fiction. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Devil to Pay in the Backlands.