Background
Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, the son of Dominic Sabino and D. Odette Tavares Sabino.
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Fernando Sabino
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
Career
He lived there until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro. Sabino was the author of 50 books, as well as many short stories and essays. His first book was published in 1941, when he was just 18 years old.
Sabino vaulted to national and international fame in 1956 with the novel, the tale of three friends in the inland city of Belo Horizonte.
The book was inspired by Sabino"s life history. Sabino also enjoyed commercial success with The Great Insane and, which were made into films.
Sabino considered friendship to be one of the most important things in life. In the last ten years of his life, Sabino was distant from the media.
Many of his close friends died before him.
Two years before his death, Sabino was diagnosed with cancer. Following a prolonged illness, he died one day before his 81st birthday in his Rio de Janeiro home.. aka (International: English title).
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Brazil