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{{Short description|Brazilian novelist (1926–2012)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Autran Dourado
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1926|1|18}}
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2012|9|30|1926|1|18}}
| birth_name       = Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado
| birth_place      = [[Patos de Minas]], Brazil
| death_place      = [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil
| occupation       = {{flatlist|
* [[Author]]
* [[Journalist]]
* [[Novelist]]}}
| notable_works    = {{Unbulleted list|Ópera dos Mortos|A barca dos homens|O risco do bordado|Sinos da Agonia|Um artista aprendiz}}
| awards           = {{Plainlist|[[Camões Prize|Camões Prize (2000)]]|[[Prêmio Jabuti]]|[[Ordem do Mérito Cultural|Order of Cultural Merit (2012)]]|[[Prêmio Machado de Assis|Machado de Assis Prize]]}}
| alma_mater       = [[Federal University of Minas Gerais]]
| image            = Autran.jpg
}}

'''Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado''' (1926 &ndash; September 30, 2012) was a Brazilian [[novelist]].<ref name="Rector2004">{{cite book|last=Rector|first=Mônica|title=Brazilian writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X88UAQAAIAAJ|access-date=11 April 2011|date=2004-11-19|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-6844-0|pages=161–}}</ref>

Dourado was born in [[Patos de Minas]], state of [[Minas Gerais]]. Going against current trends in Brazilian literature, Dourado's works display much concern with literary form, with many obscure words and expressions. Minas Gerais is the setting for most of Dourado's books, resembling the early to mid-20th century [[Criollismo|regionalist]] trend in Brazilian literature. Most literary critics consider Dourado's work to have similarities to [[Baroque]] literature.

In 1982, Dourado won the [[Jabuti Prize]].

In 2000, Dourado won the [[Camões Prize]], the most important literary prize in the [[Portuguese language]].

In 2001, Brazilian filmmaker [[Suzana Amaral]] released the film ''[[Uma Vida em Segredo]]''. It was based on the novel of same title by Autran Dourado.

Dourado died of [[stomach bleeding]] on September 30, 2012, in [[Rio de Janeiro]]. He was 86 years old.<ref name="Death">{{cite news| title=Aos 86 anos, morre no Rio o escritor Autran Dourado | url=http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/aos-86-anos-morre-no-rio-escritor-autran-dourado-6239510 | access-date=30 September 2012 | date=2012-09-30 | newspaper=[[O Globo]]}}</ref>

== Selected novels ==
* ''Uma Vida em Segredo'' 1964 - translated as ''A Hidden Life''
* ''Ópera dos Mortos'' 1967 - translated as ''Voices of the Dead''
* ''O Risco do Bordado'' 1970 - translated as ''Pattern for a Tapestry''
* ''Os Sinos da Agonia'' 1974 - translated as ''Bells of Agony''
* ''Ópera dos Fantoches'' 1995
* ''As Imaginações Pecaminosas'' (Jabuti Prize 1982)
* ''A Serviço Del-Rei'' 1984
* ''Confissões de Narciso'' 1997

Novels with English translations are posted above with their American titles.

==Reviews==
* [[Brian McCabe (author)|McCabe, Brian]] (1981), review of ''The Voices of the Dead'', in ''[[Cencrastus]]'' No. 6, Autumn 1981, p.&nbsp;42

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|1212810|Autran Dourado}}

{{Camões Prize}}
{{Order of Cultural Merit}}

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[[Category:Brazilian male novelists]]
[[Category:Camões Prize winners]]
[[Category:Deaths from gastrointestinal hemorrhage]]
[[Category:People from Patos de Minas]]
[[Category:Prêmio Jabuti winners]]


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