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{{short description|Brazilian writer}}
{{otherpeople|João Neto}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Portuguese name|second=|suffix=Neto}}
[[File:João Simões Lopes Neto.jpg|thumb|João Simões Lopes Neto.]]
'''João Simões Lopes Neto''' (March 9, 1865 &ndash; June 14, 1916) was a Brazilian [[regionalism (art)|regionalist]] writer from [[Pelotas]], Rio Grande do Sul. 

After some unsuccessful business ventures, Neto married at 27. He only wrote four significant works, but nevertheless made a strong contribution to [[Brazilian literature]], specifically regionalist writing known as [[Criollismo]] in Latin America.<ref>{{Citation |last=Wild |first=Gerhard |title=Lopes Neto, João Simões |date=2020 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12914-1 |work=Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL) |pages=1 |place=Stuttgart |publisher=J.B. Metzler |doi=10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12914-1 |isbn=978-3-476-05728-0 |access-date=2022-03-01|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Peres |first1=Eliane |last2=Arriada |first2=Eduardo |last3=Pereira |first3=Luís Artur Borges |date=2018 |title=A "Artinha de Leitura" de João Simões Lopes Neto (1907): um projeto para o ensino da leitura e da escrita |journal=Revista Brasileira de História da Educação |volume=18 |pages=1–29 |doi=10.4025/rbhe.v18.2018.e003 |issn=2238-0094|doi-access=free }}</ref> 

Neto died of a [[perforated ulcer]] in 1916 at age 51.<ref>{{Citation |last=Mullen |first=Bill V. |title=South Side Writers Group |date=2021-09-23 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.79154 |work=African American Studies Center |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.79154 |isbn=978-0-19-530173-1 |access-date=2022-03-04|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=1048| name=João Simões Lopes Neto}}
* {{Librivox author |id=8513}}
* http://mitoblogos.blogspot.com/2008/05/genealogia-179-ancestrais-de-joo-simes.html (The ancestors of João Simões Lopes Neto)

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[[Category:1865 births]]
[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Pelotas]]
[[Category:Culture in Rio Grande do Sul]]
[[Category:Brazilian male writers]]


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