João Simões Lopes Neto

For other people named João Neto, see João Neto (disambiguation).

In this Portuguese name, "Neto" is a generational suffix meaning "grandson", which is used for someone whose name is the same as their father and grandfather, like "III" in English.

João Simões Lopes Neto (March 9, 1865 – June 14, 1916) was a Brazilian regionalist writer from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.

João Simões Lopes Neto.

After some unsuccessful business ventures, Neto married at 27. He only wrote four significant works, but nevertheless made a strong contribution to Brazilian literature, specifically regionalist writing known as Criollismo in Latin America.^[1][2]

Neto died of a perforated ulcer in 1916 at age 51.^[3]