Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (, 14 April 1857 — 21 January 1913) was a
Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat, playwright and short story writer. Initially a
Romantic writer, he would later adhere to the
Naturalist movement. He introduced the Naturalist movement in Brazil with the novel
O Mulato, in 1881.