Guilherme Figueiredo

He is best known for his play The Fox and the Grapes (A raposa e as uvas) in 1953 about Aesop's life, which won various awards, including the Atur Azevedo prize from the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Before becoming a dramaturg, he had studied law in Rio de Janeiro, during which time he wrote cultural reviews for the local publications O Jornal and Diário de Notícias.

Despite the recognition of his plays, he held a number of other professions, such as translator (primarily from French to Portuguese), professor of theater studies, library director, and artistic director of TV Tupi, a commercial television network.

At the time of his death, he had been working on a memoir titled "A Bala Perdida".

[1][2] Guilherme's brother, João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, was the 30th Brazilian president and final president of the military dictatorship that ended in 1985.