\BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

My debut as a writer happened in 1995, when I was 26 years old. My first book was “The Mystery of The Rampant Lion” (ed. Ateliê Editorial), a comical-historical short novel. It took place in Elizabethan England, and had as protagonists historical figures like William Shakespeare and the main actor of his theatrical company, Richard Burbage. With this book I won two awards, The Certas Palavras Award of Best Novel (1995), and The Jabuti Prize of Best Novel (1996). “The Mystery of the Rampant Lion”, about two years later, was published in Italy, by Frassinelli, under the title “John and Mary”.

My second short novel was “The Dynamics of the Worms” (ed. Nova Fronteira), published in 1996. It was a farsesc intrigue between two publishers, an enthomologist specialized in the study of a specific species of ant-worms, a literary agent and a mysterious novelist, that in the end is in fact the enthomologist himself. In this book the challenge was to adapt my taste for a non coloquial language, a more “literary” style, as used in the first book, to a plot ocurred in present times.

My third book, published in 1999, was what I call a laboratory book, “Tripé”, or “Tripod” (ed. Ateliê Editorial). This book, in which I tried to find a more personal and more realistic way of expression, is divided in three sections, written in three very different ways: crônicas (a literary format for which I do not know the word in English, but that could be roughly defined as non-fictional literary texts of daily life observation), two short screenplays and three interconnected short stories. It was very important book to me, for in writing it I found the exact literary feeling I was looking for, and on which my fourth and latest published work was built.

This one is called “Vista do Rio”, a non-translatable title, for Rio, besides the name of a city, also means “river” in Portuguese (ed. Cosac & Naify). It is the first book that I could say that is properly a novel, as states the amount of characters involved, and the complexity of its narrative structure. Of all my books, it is the one that gave me true praise among literary critics. It tells the story of two friends that grew living in the same modernist building, during the 70´s and 80´s. In the course of their lives, the history of Brazil and its current social problems are also discussed. The jackt text was written by Moacyr Scliar, another very important Brazilian author.

“Vista do Rio” was short-listed for the three most important brazilian literary prizes: The Portugal Telecom Prize, The Zaffari and Bordon Prize and, again, The Jabuti Prize.

The Maker of Old People, the young readers book I published in 2008, is a light romantic comedy about a boy who is discovering his literary vocation and his first real important love relationship. It has won three prizes as Best Young Readers Book.