Paulo Lins
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Emerging from Rio de Janeiro's City of God favela, the Brazilian writer Paulo Lins turned early exposure to samba lyrics and street storytelling into a literary career that broke the cycle of local gang violence. Born to parents from Brazil's impoverished northeast, he honed his verbal talent while navigating a society he later described as racially stratified, noting the paradox of widespread den…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
