Joel Rufino dos Santos (19 June 1941 – 4 September 2015) was a Brazilian academic and writer, including historian and novelist.
[1][2] Rufino dos Santos was born in 1941 in Rio de Janeiro.
[3] He was a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Rufino dos Santos is considered one of the country's greatest historians as well as a novelist and writer, having been one of the leading names in the study of African culture and Afro-Brazilian literature in Brazil.
He died from complications from cardiac surgery on 4 September 2015.