Michel Laub (born 1973 in

Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, twelfth most populous city in the country ...

) is a Brazilian writer and journalist.

Biography

Laub graduated in Law at the

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul ( pt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS) is a Brazilian public federal research university based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. UFRGS is among the largest and highest-rated univers ...

in 1996. He also enrolled in the Journalism at PUC-RS, but did not complete he course. He worked for a few months as a lawyer in Porto Alegre, his hometown, but gave up the career. Laub wrote about business and politics for the magazines Carta Capital and República. In 1997, he moved to São Paulo, where he worked on ''Bravo!'' magazine, which became managing editor. In 1998 published his first book, the short story collection ''Não depois do que aconteceu''. He was the coordinator of publications and courses of Instituto Moreira Salles, later assuming the function of editor for their website. His first novel ''Música Anterior'' was published in 2001. In 2005 he was awarded a scholarship from Fundação Vitae, which enabled him to write ''O Segundo Tempo''. ''Diário da Queda'' (published in English as ''Diary of the Fall''), written with support from a grant from Funarte, was his first work to address his Jewish origins, from the diaries of his grandfather, a survivor of the concentration camp of Auschwitz.

Awards and honors

*2002 Erico Verissimo Award from União Brasileira de Escritores (Brazilian Union of Writers) New Author Category for ''Música Anterior'' *2012 Brasilia Prize for Literature in category Novel during the 1st Bienal de Brasília do Livro e Literatura for ''Diary of the Fall'' *???? Bravo Award / Bradesco for Best Novel for ''Diary of the Fall'' *???? ''

Granta Magazine ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

'' "The Best of Young Brazilian Writers" *2012 Portugal Telecom Award shortlist for ''Diary of the Fall'' *2015

Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize is an annual British literary prize inaugurated in 1977. It is named after the host ''Jewish Quarterly'' and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate. The award recognises Jewish and non-Jewish writers r ...

winner for ''Diary of the Fall'' (Translated by

Margaret Jull Costa Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa OBE, OIH (born 2 May 1949) is a British translator of Portuguese- and Spanish-language fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Coelho, B ...

)

Published works

*1998 - ''Não Depois do que Aconteceu'' - short stories *2001 - ''Música anterior'' - novel *2004 - ''Longe da água'' - novel *2006 - ''O segundo tempo'' - novel *2009 - ''O gato diz adeus'' - novel *2011 - ''Diary of the Fall'' - novel *2013 - ''A maçã envenenada''- novel *2016 - ''O Tribunal da quinta-feira''- novel *2020 - ''Solução de dois estados'' - novel

References

External links

Personal blog (in Portuguese)Author profile at Companhia das Letras website (in Portuguese)
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