Bernardo Ajzenberg

Bernardo Ajzenberg (born January 21, 1959 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian writer , translator and journalist .

Life

Ajzenberg has been a journalist for various magazines since 1976. In 1983 he graduated from the Faculdade de Comunicação of the Fundação Cásper Líbero with a degree in journalism and lived in Paris in 1985. The magazines and newspapers in which he published from 1977 to 2004 include Veja , Última Hora , Gazeta Mercantil and, above all, Folha de S. Paulo . From 2004 to 2008 he was managing director of the Kulturstiftung Instituto Moreira Salles , currently he works in the publishing management of Cosac Naify .

He made his debut novel in 1989 with Carreiras cortadas , which has been followed by five other novels and an anthology of short stories.

Bernardo Ajzenberg was part of the Brazilian writers' delegation on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013.

None of his works has yet been translated into German.

Awards

In 2003 Ajzenberg received the Narrator Prize of the Academia Brasileira de Letras ( Prêmio ABL de Ficção, romance, teatro e conto ) for his novel A gaiola de Faraday ( The Faraday Cage ). With the novel Homens com mulheres he became a finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti in 2005 , which he received in 2010 in the category “Best Spanish-Portuguese Translation” for his translation of Martínez 'Purgatório.

Works

• 1989: Carreiras Cortadas. Romance. Alves, Rio de Janeiro 1989. (novel).
• 1993: Efeito suspensório. Imago, Rio de Janeiro 1993, ISBN 85-312-0290-6 . (Novel).
• 1994: Goldstein & Camargo. Imago, Rio de Janeiro 1994, ISBN 85-312-0385-6 . (Novel).
• 1998: Variações Goldman. Editora Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 1998, ISBN 85-325-0903-7 . (Novel).
• 2002: A gaiola de Faraday. Editora Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2002, ISBN 85-325-1349-2 . (Novel).
• 2005: Homens com mulheres. Contos. Editora Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2005, ISBN 85-325-1872-9 . (Stories).
• 2009: Olhos secos. Editora Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2009, ISBN 978-85-325-2454-6 . (Novel).
• 2011: Duas novelas. Editora Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2011, ISBN 978-85-325-2668-7 . (Contains the two early works Goldstein & Camargo and Efeito suspensório ).

Translations

Ajzenberg has translated numerous works from French, Spanish and English, including:

• Sergio Pitol : Vida conjugal. Tradução Bernardo Ajzenberg. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2009, ISBN 978-85-359-1427-6 . (Original Mexican title: La vida conyugal ).
• Tomás Eloy Martínez : Purgatório. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2009, ISBN 978-85-359-1478-8 . (Original Argentine title: Purgatorio ).
• Roberto Bolaño : Estrela distante. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2009, ISBN 978-85-359-1562-4 . (Original Spanish title: Estrella distante ).
• Pablo Vierci : A sociedade da neve. Oz dezesseis sobreviventes da tragédia dos Andes contam toda a história pela primeira vez. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2010, ISBN 978-85-359-1668-3 .
• John Reed : Dec dias que abalaram o mundo. Companhia das Letras, Penguin-Companhia, São Paulo 2010, ISBN 978-85-63560-08-7 . (Original English title: Ten days that shook the world ).
• Amartya Sen , Bernardo Kliksberg : As pessoas em primeiro lugar. A ética do desenvolvimento e os problemas do mundo globalizado. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2010, ISBN 978-85-359-1664-5 . (Original Spanish title: Primero la gente ).

literature

• Bernardo Ajzenberg , detailed article in: Rascunho. O jornal de literatura do Brasil. October 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2014, in Portuguese.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernardo Ajzenberg in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Ajzenberg, Bernardo (1959) . In: enciclopédia literatura brasileira Itaú Cultural (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernardo Ajzenberg ( Memento from April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the authors website , Frankfurter Buchmesse 2013 . Retrieved April 24, 2018.