Background
Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes was born on October 19, 1922, in Salvador, Bahia.
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Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes was born on October 19, 1922, in Salvador, Bahia.
Dias Gomes studied law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but left his studies to pursue a career in the theatre.
Gomes tried and mastered all forms of drama, whether, on the stage, radio, or television, and his theater continually evolved. Always he was both artist and social commentator. It is in O berço do herói (1965) that the satiric humor and the expressionistic techniques introduced in A revolução dos beatos (1962) and Odorico, o bem amado (1962) find their fruition. The work concerns itself chiefly with the problem of true individual liberty in a capitalist society, much as does O pagador. Dias Gomes's sixth major play, O santo inquérito, was first presented in Rio in September 1966. Dias died in a car accident in São Paulo, in 1999.
With his play O pagador de promessas (1960), Dias Gomes gained national prominence as a playwright. He was also a writer of numerous Brazilian TV shows, miniseries, and a few movies. Keeper of Promises was the first ever Brazilian movie to be nominated for an Oscar, and the only South American to ever win the Golden Palm in Cannes.
Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Quotes from others about the person
“Alfredo Dias Gomes stands as one of the most prominent contemporary social commentators of Brazilian theatre, whose writing demonstrates a clear cultural and political mission.” - Lynn Carbon Gorell
Gomes was married to Janette Clair, a novelist. She died in 1983 and six years later he remarried, to Bernadeth Lyzio. With her, he had two daughters, Mayra Dias Gomes, a writer, and Luana Dias Gomes, a student of Economics at Stanford University.
