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Rodrigo de Souza Leão

Born

in Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil

November 04, 1965

Died

July 02, 2009

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Rodrigo Antonio de Souza Leão was a Brazilian journalist, musician, poet, writer and painter.

He died in a psychiatric clinic in Rio in 2009, shortly after his extraordinary autobiographical novel (later translated as All Dogs are Blue) was published. Due to his mental fragility, Rodrigo de Souza Leão rarely left his house and yet he used social media, blogging and email a lot, becoming close friends with a large number of Brazilian writers and poets who hold him in high regard today. His death was marked by a flood of poems in homage.

During his lifetime, De Souza Leão was a prolific writer, publishing many books of poetry and co-founding and co-editing one of Brazil’s most important poetry magazines, Zunái. Since his death, further works of ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 457 ratings · 80 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	All Dogs Are Blue by Rodrigo de Souza Leão, Zoë Perry (Goodreads Author) (Translation), Stefan Tobler (Translation) 3.61 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Me Roubaram uns Dias Contados 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Esquizoide Coraocaao Na Boca 2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O esquizoide: Coração na boca 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carbono Pautado 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[All Dogs Are Blue] [By: de Souza Leão, Rodrigo] [September, 2013] by Rodrigo de Souza Leão, Deborah Levy, Zoë Perry (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Governments do so many things to destroy the lives of those who are a nuisance to them.”
― Rodrigo de Souza Leão, All Dogs Are Blue

tags: governments, oppression, protest, public-order

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“¿Con cuántos años se es feliz? Sólo se es feliz en el pasado.”
― Rodrigo de Souza Leão, All Dogs Are Blue

tags: felicidad, feliz, pasado

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“If you don't suffer, you're not alive. If you're alive, you eat French fries. It's a good thing there are always French fries to ease the burden.”
― Rodrigo de Souza Leão, All Dogs Are Blue

tags: consultation, life, suffering

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