Chronicler was hospitalized in the ICU of Moinhos de Vento Hospital in Porto Alegre (RS), since August 17
Writer Luis Fernando Verissimo died at the age of 88 on Saturday (30.2025). He (Intensive Care Unit) of Moinhos de Vento Hospital in Porto Alegre (RS), since August 17, with principle of pneumonia.
Verissimo had suffered a stroke (stroke) in January 2021, which affected his motor functions and speech. It was also diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and had heart problems, including the need for a pacemaker implanted in 2022.
Youth and Training
Verissimo was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, on September 26, 1936. Son of the renowned writer Érico Verissimo, author of the trilogy “The Time and the Wind”spent part of childhood and adolescence in the US, accompanying his father’s professional commitments.
From 1943 to 1945, he resided in Washington, DC, where his father acted as a professor at the University of California in Berkeley. Then, from 1947 to 1949, he lived in San Francisco, California. During this period, he studied part of elementary school in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and completed high school at Roosevelt High School in Washington.
When he lived in the US capital, he developed a passion for jazz, starting saxophone studies. He made frequent trips to New York to watch performances by renowned musicians of the time, such as Charlie Parker and Diszyy Gillespie.
Back in Brazil in 1956, he settled in Porto Alegre, where he began his professional career as a reviewer of texts and advertising editor.
Journalism and Chronicle
Journalism was the gateway to its consecration. In 1967, he began to sign a column in the newspaper Zero hourin Porto Alegre, where it consolidated its chronicle style-transforming daily life into acute and humorous reflections.
Verissimo also collaborated with national newspapers, as The State of S. Paulo e Folha de S. Paulo.
Literary work
Verissimo’s literary production includes chronicles, short stories, novels, comics and plays. Among his best known works are:
- “The Analyst of Bagé” (1981): satire to the universe of psychoanalysis, with a character that became an icon of Brazilian humor;
- “The lies that men tell” (1989): collection of chronicles about small and great lies of daily life;
- “Comedies of Private Life” (1994): Daily stories adapted for television, transformed into comedies;
- “Ed Mort”: Detective bumbling present in newspaper strips and books, known for their failed investigations;
- “The Clube dos Anjos” (1998): Romance that addresses passion for food and friendship bonds, with lightness and depth.
