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Augusto Boal

1931 - 2009

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Augusto Boal (Brazilian Portuguese: [awˈgustu boˈaw]; 16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augusto Boal is the 1,802nd most popular writer (down from 1,785th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 139th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Augusto Boal ranks 1,802 out of 7,302. Before him are Gaius Julius Solinus, Yaşar Kemal, Slavenka Drakulić, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Li He, and Stéphane Hessel. After him are Ion Luca Caragiale, Eduard Mörike, Stephen Crane, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Paul Goodman, and Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Augusto Boal ranks 123. Before him are Morris Chang, Ivan Klíma, Sri Chinmoy, Viliam Schrojf, Yao Wenyuan, and Ole-Johan Dahl. After him are Ermanno Olmi, Masaaki Hatsumi, Dean Smith, Barbara Eden, Márta Mészáros, and Gunnel Lindblom. Among people deceased in 2009, Augusto Boal ranks 85. Before him are Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Lucian Pulvermacher, Arne Næss, Qian Xuesen, Edward T. Hall, and Kim Peek. After him are Glenn Davis, James Whitmore, Armen Takhtajan, Philip José Farmer, Andrew Wyeth, and Félix Malloum.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Augusto Boal ranks 146 out of 2,236. Before him are Mário de Andrade (1893), Hulk (1986), Clodoaldo (1949), Aldair (1965), Adriana Lima (1981), and Thiago Motta (1982). After him are Fernando Meirelles (1955), Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (1847), Peter Medawar (1915), Carlos José Castilho (1927), Lúcio (1978), and Odilo Scherer (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Augusto Boal ranks 9. Before him are Vinicius de Moraes (1913), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Machado de Assis (1839), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Chico Xavier (1910), and Mário de Andrade (1893). After him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Carlos Marighella (1911), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), José de Alencar (1829), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), and Monteiro Lobato (1882).

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