Luís Fernando Veríssimo (born September 26, 1936 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian writer.Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo and lived with his father in the United States during his childhood.Best known for his chronicles and texts of humor, more precisely satire of manners, published daily in several Brazilian newspapers, Verissimo is also a cartoonist, translator, and television writer, playwright and novelist.