Background
Samuel Rawet was born on July 23, 1929, in Klimontów, Poland. He emigrated to Brazil at the age of seven and grew up on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro in neighborhoods teeming with the Jewish and other immigrants.
- Photos
- Works
Main Photo
Samuel Rawet
Samuel Rawet
src="/web/img/loading.gif" data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=2837888&cache=false" alt="Other photo of Samuel Rawet" class="gallery__img" height="167"
Other photo of Samuel Rawet
Samuel Rawet
- Photos
- Works
book
The Prophet and Other Stories
(The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.)
The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Other-Stories-Jewish-America/dp/0826319521
1998
Contos E Novelas Reunidos
(The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.)
The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Samuel-Rawet/dp/8520006434/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1610360921&refinements=p_27%3ASamuel+Rawet&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr
2004
Ensaios Reunidos
(The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.)
The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/8520007872/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2008
Samuel Rawet
Edit ProfileEducation
Samuel Rawet earned a degree in engineering.
Career
As an engineer, Samuel Rawet made significant contributions to the design and building of Brasília. Then he decided to establish a career as an author and in 1956 published his first volume of short stories, Contos do imigrante. Rawet was a pioneer of modern Brazilian-Jewish writing. He wrote short stories and novellas that explored themes of alienation and displacement. Born near Warsaw, Poland, he made the Roman Catholic country of Brazil his adopted home. However, his writing reveals a strong sense of otherness within this greater society.
As a child, Rawet immigrated to Brazil. Trained as an engineer, he lived in Rio de Janeiro until 1957, when he moved to the new national capital, Brasilia, to help design and build its infrastructure. His life was isolated; the writer lived alone and rarely traveled. His first collection of stories, Contos do imigrante, is considered a landmark. It contains stories he had previously published between 1949 and 1953 in different magazines and literary supplements. Rawet's stories not only introduce themes of the Jewish experience in Brazil. His works also use those themes to challenge the common idea of Brazil, or even all of Latin America, as a single cultural entity. The Prophet, and Other Stories, the first English book of Samuel Rawet's work, includes twelve stories published between 1956 and 1969.
Achievements
Works
book
-
The Prophet and Other Stories
(The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.)
1998 -
Contos E Novelas Reunidos
(The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.)
2004 -
Ensaios Reunidos
(The book was published after Samuel Rawet's death in 1985.)
2008
-
The Prophet and Other Stories
-
Born
-
Died
August 22, 1985 (aged 56) -
Nationality
Brazil -
Ethnicity
-
Religion
Judaism