Bernardo Carvalho 20100329 Salon du livre de Paris 1

Bernardo Carvalho (born 1960 in

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) is a Brazilian

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and

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. He was the editor of “ Folhetim,” a collection of essays, and is a Paris and New York correspondent for

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. His first two novels were edited in France. His novel ''Mongólia'' received the 2003 prize of the Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Arte. He shared the

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with

Dalton Trevisan Dalton Jérson Trevisan (born 14 June 1925) is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas." Trevisan won the 2012 Prémio Camões, the leading Portu ...

for his novel ''Nove Noites''.

Awards and recognitions

* 2008 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for ''O Sol se Põe em São Paulo'' * 2010 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for ''O Filho da Mãe'' * 2014 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for ''Reprodução''

Bibliography

* Aberração (short story collection) 1993 * Onze (novel) 1995 * Os Bêbados e os Sonâmbulos (novel) 1996 * Teatro (novel) 1998 * As Iniciais (novel) 1999 * Medo de Sade (novel) 2000 * Nove Noites (novel) 2002 - published in English in 2007 as

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* Mongólia (novel) 2003 * O Sol se Põe em São Paulo (novel) 2007 * O Filho da Mãe (novel) 2009 * Reprodução (novel) 2013

References

External links

Bernardo Carvalho's biography
Brazilian male writers Brazilian journalists Male journalists 1960 births Living people Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city) {{Brazil-writer-stub