Luiz Ruffato

Luiz Ruffato ( born February 1961 in Cataguases, Minas Gerais ) is a Brazilian writer.

Ruffato initially worked as a salesman, textile workers and fitter while studying journalism at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora ( UFJF ). He then worked as a journalist in São Paulo. Since his first, 2001 and 2010, published in the seventh edition of Roman Eles eram muitos cavalos ( German Edition: There were many horses, 2012), won the prestigious Prêmio São Paulo the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte ( APCA ) and the Machado de - Assis prize of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, he is considered one of the most important contemporary Brazilian writer. In 2003 he finished his work as a journalist to work exclusively as a writer since then. His incurred 2005-2011 five-volume novel cycle Inferno PROVISORIO ( Engl.: Preliminary hell) tells the story of the Brazilian workers, immigrants and internal migrants. For the third volume of this cycle, Vista parcial noite there, he received the 2006 Prêmio Jabuti, the fifth volume, Domingos sem deus 2013 was awarded the Premio Casa de las Américas. Luiz Ruffato was literary opening speaker of the 65th Frankfurt Book Fair 2013.

Works

  • Histórias de remorsos e rancores. Boitempo Editorial, São Paulo, 1998. ( Stories ). ISBN 85-85934-22-0.
  • Os sobreviventes. Boitempo Editorial, São Paulo, 2000. ( Stories ). ISBN 85-85934-39-5.
  • Eles eram muitos cavalos. Romance. Record, Rio de Janeiro 2001. (Novel). ISBN 85-85934-86-7. ( 7th edition: Bestbolso, Rio de Janeiro 2010). German edition: There were many horses. Association A, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86241-420-8. ( Translator: Michael Kegler ).
  • German edition: Mom, I'm fine. Association A, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86241-421-5. ( Translator Michael Kegler )
  • 25 mulheres que estao fazendo a nova literatura brasileira. Record, Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo 2002, ISBN 85-01-06970-1.
  • Questão de pele. Ed. Lingua Geral, Rio de Janeiro 2009, ISBN 978-85-601-6040-2.
  • Torcida. Supporters. 7Letras/GloboSat, Rio de Janeiro 2010, ISBN 978-85-7577-592-9. Bilingual edition Portuguese / English.
  • São Paulo 1971 - 2011th História recente, versões literárias, resíduos Visuais. São Paulo 1971 - 2011 Recent history, literary versions, visual residues. . Olhares, São Paulo 2012, ISBN 978-85-621-1415-1.
  • The black son of God. 15 football stories from Brazil, Association A, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86241-428-4
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