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Loredano Brazil
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Loredano
Cássio Silva Filho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1958, is just as well known in
Europe as he is in his home country Brazil. At the age of 20, he began working
for various newspapers and was soon employed as a caricaturist by important
Brazilian newspapers such as Pasquim, Opinião, O Globo and
Jornal do Brasil.
In 1977, Loredano moved to
Germany and worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die
Zeit until 1981, when he went to live in Italy and France, working for La
Repubblica, Il Globo, Libération and the Magazine Littéraire.
After spending just one year (1983) in Brazil, he moved back to Europe once
again, first to Zürich, then to Barcelona.
It was in 1986 when
Loredano first drew his unmistakable charges for El País. His
caricatures of celebrities for the literary supplement Babelia are most
distinctive. In 1993 Loredano returned to Brazil for good. He now lives in Rio
de Janeiro and works for large dailies such as the Estado de S. Paulo
and other national and international press. So far two books have been
published, Caricaturas in 1994 and Alfabeto Literário in 2002.
Today he is considered to be Brazil’s most famous and original draughtsman of
caricatures and the large number of fans and admirers in his country, as well
as abroad, only proves that.
Alfabeto
Literário
Rio de Janeiro: Capivara
2002, 262 p.