Biography

Euclides da Cunha was born on January 20, 1866 in Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a writer, known for Antônio Conselheiro e a Guerra dos Pelados (1977), Savagery (2020) and The Battle of Canudos (1997). He died on August 15, 1909 in Piedade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Writer and journalist for O Estado de São Paulo newspaper. His reporting on the Canudos conflict in 1897 was later turned into the acclaimed book "Os Sertões".