Caio Fernando Abreu

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Caio Fernando Abreu (born September 12, 1948 in Santiago , Rio Grande do Sul , † February 25, 1996 in Porto Alegre ) was a Brazilian writer.

Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu studied literature and theater in Porto Alegre and has lived as a freelance writer in São Paulo since 1968 . In 1968, at the time of the Brazilian military dictatorship, he was on the wanted list of the DOPS secret police and in the 1970s went into self-elected exile in Europe for a year. He described the innumerable contradictions of urban Brazil. In 1996 he died of the consequences of his HIV infection.

Abreu wrote novels, short stories, theater texts, song texts and scripts. His fourth volume of short stories Morangos mofados from 1982, which has been praised by literary critics, is considered a magnum opus . His works have been translated into German, English, French, Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Swedish and Spanish. His novel Onde andará Dulce Veiga was made into a film by Guilherme de Almeida Prado in Brazil in 2008.

Publications

  • 1971 Limite branco (Expressão e Cultura; new edition Agir 2007)
  • 1975 O ovo apunhalado (Globo; new edition Agir 2008)
  • 1977 Pedras de Calcutá (Nova Fronteira)
  • 1982 Morangos mofados ( Companhia das Letras , new edition 2001; new edition Agir 2005)
  • 1982 Triângulo das águas (Brasiliense; new edition Agir 2008)
  • 1988 Mel & Girassóis (Mercado Aberto)
  • 1990 Onde andará Dulce Veiga? (Companhia das Letras, new edition 2001; new edition Agir 2007); German: What really happened to Dulce Veiga? , from the Brazilian Portuguese by Gerd Hilger. Edition diá , Berlin 1994; Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 1997; E-Book: Edition diá 2013, ISBN 978-3-86034-524-5 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-624-2 (Mobi)
  • 1991 Os dragões nicht conhecem o paraíso ( Companhia das Letras , new edition 2001)
  • 1995 Ovelhas negras (Sulina; new edition L&PM 2002)
  • 1996 Estranhos estrangeiros (Companhia das Letras, new edition 2002)
  • 2000 Fragmentos (L&PM)
  • 2002 Cartas (Aeroplano)
  • 2006 Caio 3 D. O essencial da década de 1990 (Agir)
  • 2006 Melhores contos (Global)
  • 2009 Teatro completo (Agir)
  • 2015 Kleine Monster (eight short stories from Pedras de Calcutá, Morangos Mofados, Os dragões nicht conhecem o paraíso and Ovelhas Negras ), selected and with an afterword by Gerd Hilger, from the Brazilian Portuguese by Marianne Gareis, Gerd Hilger, Maria Hummitzsch , Gaby Küppers and Gotthardt Schön. E-Book: Edition diá , Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86034-542-9 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-642-6 (Mobi)

Awards

  • 1984 Prêmio Jabuti for Triângulo das águas
  • 1989 Prêmio Jabuti for Os dragões Don't conhecem o paraíso
  • 1990 Trofeu APCA (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte) for Onde andará Dulce Veiga?
  • 1996 Prêmio Jabuti for Ovelhas negras

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personal data
SURNAME Abreu, Caio Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abreu, Caio Fernando Loureiro de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago (Rio Grande do Sul)
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1996
Place of death Porto Alegre