Galeão Coutinho

Salisbury Galeão Coutinho (26 September 1897 – 17 September 1951) was a Brazilian journalist, translator, screenwriter and novelist.

Biography

Galeão Coutinho was born at the freguesia of Curral del Rei in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He was registered in Santo Antônio de Pádua, Rio de Janeiro, where his family moved soon after his birth.

In the 1930s, he founded the publishing house Edições Cultura Brasileira with Mário de Andrade, Sérgio Milliet, among others. Galeão Coutinho translated Voltaire's Candide and Zadig, Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Gobineau's novella Adélaïde into Portuguese.

He also worked for the newspapers Correio Paulistano, Jornal da Manhã, Jornal de S. Paulo and Jornal de Notícias, of which he was the director when he died, as well as a daily contributor to A Tribuna.

He died in a plane crash on September 17, 1951, while traveling from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo.

Works

• Parque Antigo (1920; poetry)
• Câmbio a Três (1931)
• Memórias de Simão, o Caolho (1937)
• Vovô Morungaba (1938)
• A Vida Apertada de Eunápio Cachimbo (1939)
• A Vocação de Vitorino Lapa (1942)
• O Último dos Morungabas (1944)
• O Mistério de João Teimoso (1945)
• Confidências de Dona Marcolina (1949)
• O Pacto com o Demônio (1952)

External links

• Galeão Coutinho at the Internet Movie Database