João Simões Lopes Neto

João Simões Lopes Neto was a Brazilian journalist and regionalist writer whose career in Pelotas’s press included work as an editor, director, and literary contributor. His best-known books, *Cancioneiro Guasca* (1910), *Contos Gauchescos* (1912), and *Lendas do Sul* (1913), drew on the folklore, speech, and rural imagination of Rio Grande do Sul. He also wrote for the theater and helped preserve southern Brazilian cultural traditions through journalism and literary collection.