Aguinaldo Silva is a Brazilian playwright, writer, screenwriter, journalist, filmmaker, and telenovelist, born on June 7, 1944, in Carpina.
As a teenager, he worked at a cartório in Recife and wrote the novel Redenção para Job, which was a success but generated controversy when rumors circulated that the real author was journalist Newton Rodrigues.
In 1962, he joined the Última Hora Nordeste newspaper in Recife, where he worked as a reporter and later as a copy editor. After the newspaper closed due to the military coup in 1964, he moved to Rio de Janeiro and worked as a police reporter for O Globo.
In the 1970s, he edited the first gay newspaper in Brazil, O Lampião, a weekly tabloid that had a short lifespan. His experience as a police reporter led him to be invited to write for the TV series Plantão de Polícia, and he later wrote episodes for Malu Mulher.
He received the Troféu APCA award for Revelation Male of 1982 for his work on the miniseries Lampião e Maria Bonita, and he went on to write several other miniseries, including Bandidos da Falange, Padre Cícero, and Tenda dos Milagres.
In 1985, he wrote his first novel, Partido Alto, but it did not achieve the expected success. However, he bounced back the following year with the successful novel Roque Santeiro, which was based on a work by Dias Gomes that had been banned by the military government.
He has since written many other novels and miniseries, including Senhora do destino, Duas Caras, Cinquentinha, and Fina Estampa. He is known for his regionalism and realism, and he has also explored themes of fantasy and the supernatural in his work.
Aguinaldo Silva is openly gay and has been a prominent figure in Brazilian television for many years.
