Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996) Brazil

© by the author’s family

Caio Fernando Abreu was born in Rio Grande do Sul in 1948 and was an award-winning journalist, writer and dramatic adviser who portrayed like no other the myriad contradictions of urban Brazil. In 1968, he was put on the wanted list of the Department for Political and Social order, and in the 1970s he spent a year in self-exile in Europe. His books, written in a personal and economic style, speak of love, fear, death and, above all, of the anguish of human loneliness. Abreu has become one of the classics of Brazilian literature.

In Abreu’s novel Onde andará Dulce Veiga? (“Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?”), a Brazilian journalist descends into São Paulo’s underworld, trying to find out where the famous singer Dulce Veiga disappeared to after her first show twenty years ago. In his search, he meets the most bizarre characters – but will he be successful?

Outstanding in modern Brazilian literature.

Jornal da Tarde

A comic opera structured like a thriller; sudden outlooks on the pain it means to live and not to be able to change anything about it.

La Repubblica

Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso (“Dragons”) is a collection of short stories whose main topic revolves around love: love and sex, love and death, love and happiness, love and madness. Abreu paints an interior portrait of today’s Brazil with all its abisms.

Abreu's main characteristic is to place himself elsewhere, next to an imaginary frontier, midway between realistic narration and dream.

Magazine Littéraire

His language is at once a living thing and an organic creativity, capturing the human solitude in the big city with violence and lyricism.

Estado de São Paulo

For further information, please also visit the author’s homepage:

www.caiofernandoabreu.com

Represented for Riff Agency

Rights sold (selection):

Novels:

Limite branco

Rio de Janeiro: Expressão e Cultura 1971; Agir 2007, 184 p.

Onde andará Dulce Veiga?

São Paulo: Companhia das Letras 1990, 2001; Rio de Janeiro: Agir 2007, 252 p.

São Paulo Art Critics’ Association Award

Made into a feature film in 2007

Argentina: Adriana Hidalgo 2008 ● France: Autrement 1994 ● Germany: Zebra 1994; Edition diá 1994; dtv 1997 ● Italy: Zanzibar 1993, La Nuova Frontiera 2011 ● Netherlands: De Prom 1994 ● Portugal: Quetzal ● US: University of Texas Press 2001

Triângulo das águas

São Paulo: Brasiliense 1982; Rio de Janeiro: Agir 2008, 224 p.

Prêmio Jabuti 1984

Italy: Quarup

Stories:

Morangos mofados

São Paulo: Companhia das Letras 1982, 2001; Rio de Janeiro: Agir 2005, 158 p.

France: Complexe 1994

Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso

São Paulo: Companhia das Letras 1988, 2001, 157 p.

Prêmio Jabuti 1989

France: Complexe 1991 ● Italy: Quarup 2008, Zanzibar 1995 ● UK: Boulevard Books 1990

Mel & girassóis

Porto Alegre: Mercado Aberto 1988, 130 p.

Italy: Zanzibar 1995

Ovelhas negras

Rio Grande do Sul:Sulina 1995; Porto Alegre: L&PM 2002, 250 p.

Prêmio Jabuti 1996

Estranhos estrangeiros

São Paulo: Companhia das Letras 1996, 2002

Fragmentos

Porto Alegre: L&PM 2000, 147 p.

France: José Corti 2000

Melhores contos

Rio Grande do Sul: Global 2006, 232 p.

Caio 3 D. O essencial da década de 1990

Rio de Janeiro: Agir 2006, 285 p.

Participation in anthologies:

Brasilien berättar: Ljud av steg, Stockholm: Tranan 2011

Memoir:

Cartas

Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano 2002, 532 p.

Play:

Teatro completo

Rio de Janeiro: Agir 2009, 368 p.