Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu ( born September 12, 1948 in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul, † February 25, 1996 in Porto Alegre) was a Brazilian writer.
He studied literature and theater in Porto Alegre and lived since 1968 as a freelance writer in São Paulo. 1968, during the Brazilian military dictatorship, he was on the wanted list of the secret police DOPS and went in the seventies for a year in self-imposed exile in Europe. Like no other, he described the countless contradictions of urban Brazil. In 1996, he died of complications from HIV infection.
Abreu wrote novels, short stories, theater texts, song lyrics and screenplays. His works have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Spanish. His novel " Onde Andara Dulce Veiga " was filmed Prado in Brazil by Guilherme de Almeida in 2008.