Daniel Galera

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Daniel Galera

Daniel Galera (born July 13, 1979 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian writer and translator .

Life

Galera spent a few years in his hometown of São Paulo and a year and a half in the beach town of Garopaba , where his fourth novel is set, Flood . Today he lives as a writer and translator of English works in Porto Alegre .

Between 1997 and 2001 he published his first own texts on the Internet. a. Article in the online portal Proa da Palavra ( Wortbug , 1997–2000), which he edited , and columns in Brazil's best-known web fanzine CardosOnline ( DistelnOnline , 1998–2001). He became a trailblazer for literary texts on the Internet.

In mid-2001, together with his former colleagues from CardosOnline, Daniel Pellizzari and Guilherme Pilla, he founded the Livros do Mal publishing house , which existed until 2004 and published almost exclusively younger authors. About his motivation for founding the publisher, Galera says: “Our intention was to be easy to read. We didn't want to gain fame or be discovered by a big publisher. "

His first short stories appeared in 2001, his first novel and his first translation in 2003. In 2005 he worked as literary coordinator ( Coordenador do Livro e da Leitura ) for the Municipality of Porto Alegre . Further novels by him were published in 2006, 2008 and 2012.

Since January 2013 Daniel Galera has been writing the column in the cultural section Segundo Caderno of the Brazilian newspaper O Globo every Monday . In October 2013, Galera was a guest at the Frankfurt Book Fair as part of the focus on Brazil .

Literary work

As a translator, Daniel Galera devotes himself primarily to the works of the younger generation of English and North American authors, such as the novels Von der Schönheit ( Zadie Smith ), Kingdom of Fear ( Hunter S. Thompson ), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ( Jonathan Safran Foer ) and, in collaboration with Daniel Pellizzari, Trainspotting ( Irvine Welsh ). Most recently in 2012 he translated Your body figured (Douglas A. Martin) and Der Seewolf by Jack London ; He is currently working on the translations of The Thousand Autumns by Jacob de Zoet ( David Mitchell ) and Skagboys by Irvine Welsh.

As an author, he wrote contributions to short story anthologies and published his own short stories and novels. His literary debut, the short story anthology Dentes Guardados ("Preserved Teeth"), he published in 2001 in his publishing house Livros do Mal (available free of charge on Galera's website).

At the age of 23 he wrote his first novel Até o Dia em que o Cão Morreu ("Until the day the dog died"), which was published in 2003. The novel tells of the isolated life of a middle-class young man, of his days in a tiny rented apartment in the center of Porto Alegre. The book paints a portrait of a whole generation of young people with no prospects who, after completing their studies, have difficulties finding normality and making social contacts. In 2007 the book was made into a film by Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca under the title Cão sem Dono ("adoptable dog").

His second novel, Mãos de Cavalo (“Horse's Hands”) was published in 2006. The book tells the story of its main character at three different times: as a young ten-year-old boy roaming the city on his mountain bike; as a successful plastic surgeon living in a failed marriage and skiing on Cerro Bonete, Bolivia; and as a shy, reserved youth who experiences massive peer pressure for the first time during a soccer game. In the course of the novel, the three stories, which have their starting point in a common motif, are intertwined. According to Galera, the book is about identity and the futility of trying to define identity at all. Mãos de Cavalo shows that everyone can only influence who they are and how they affect others up to a certain point. In certain situations you are forced to show yourself completely undisguised.

In 2008 Galera published his third novel Cordilheira ("Mountain Range"), which is set in Buenos Aires . Anita, the main character, is a young writer who suddenly loses interest in literature and from then on devotes herself to the desire to father a child. She goes to Buenos Aires, where she joins a hermetic literary circle. This novel was the prelude to the book series Amores Expressos published by Companhia das Letras , for which various writers travel to foreign capitals to write narrative literature. In 2008 the book won the Prêmio Literário Machado de Assis of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional in the Roman category and was voted third place in the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura .

In 2010 Galera published the comic novel Cachalote together with Rafael Coutinho , for which they received the cartoon prize Prêmio HQ Mix in the category New Talent - Screenwriter .

In November 2012, Barba ensopada de sangue (“Blood-soaked Beard”) appeared in Brazil, which was published in April 2013 in German under the title Flut . It tells of a young man who moves to the small beach town of Garopaba in the cool winter south of Brazil after his father's suicide . There he wants to explore the myth of his grandfather, whom he looks like. The grandfather, a very good diver, was attacked there during a festival according to his father's descriptions and disappeared without a body being found. The narrator adapts to the rhythm of the place and its inhabitants, whose fate is shaped by the weather and the sea. In search of his roots, he senses the xenophobia of the locals, which is reinforced by the superstition in his grandfather's spirit. But friendships and relationships also develop that help him to find out the secret of his grandfather. In 2012 the British literary magazine Granta named Galera one of the 20 best young Brazilian authors "who will determine the literary map of Brazil". In November 2013, the novel received the Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura for Best Book of the Year and the third prize of the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura in the Roman category .

Works

Novels

  • Meia-Noite e Vinte , Companhia das Letras, 2016 (German: This is how we end , Suhrkamp 2018)
  • Barba ensopada de sangue , Companhia das Letras, 2012; German: Flut , German by Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner; Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2013. ISBN 978-3-518-42409-4
  • Cordilheira , Companhia das Letras, 2008
  • Mãos de Cavalo , Companhia das Letras, 2006
  • Até o dia em que o cão morreu , Livros do Mal, 2003; Companhia das Letras, 2007

Short stories

  • Dentes Guardados , Livros do Mal, 2001

Graphic novel

  • Cachalote , Quadrinhos na Cia, 2010 (with Rafael Coutinho)

Contributions to anthologies

  • Granta 9, Alfaguara, 2012
  • Geração Zero Zero , Língua Geral, 2011
  • Lusofonica: La Nuova narrative in Lingua Portoghese , La Nuova Fronteira, Italy, 2006
  • Sex'n'Bossa , Mondadori, Italy, 2005
  • Contos de Bolso , Casa Verde, 2005
  • Os Cem Menores Contos Brasileiros do Século , Ateliê Editorial, 2004
  • Contos de oficina 24 , WS, 2000
  • Literatura Século XXI , vol. 2, Blocos, 1999

Prizes and awards

  • Prêmio Açorianos de Literatura ( Porto Alegre , 2003): Publisher of the Year
  • Prêmio Machado de Assis of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional ( Rio de Janeiro , 2008): first place in the Roman category for Cordilheira
  • Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura ( São Paulo , 2009): third place in the Roman category for Cordilheira
  • Prêmio HQ Mix: first place in the New Talent category - Screenwriter (São Paulo, 2010) for Cachalote , together with Rafael Coutinho
  • Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura (São Paulo, 2013): third place in the Roman category for Barba ensopada de sangue ( flood )
  • Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura of the State of São Paulo (2013): Best Book of the Year for Barba ensopada de Sangue ( flood )

Web links

Interviews
Book presentations
Reviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Galera, Author Information , Suhrkamp Verlag , 2013
  2. ↑ a b Julio Daio Borges: Interview with Daniel Galera. In: Digestivo Cultural. June 12, 2006, accessed January 5, 2014 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Arrais, Daniel; Bertoni, Estêvão. “Como chegar ao primeiro livro” Folha de São Paulo , São Paulo, 26 de março de 2007.
  4. ^ Daniel Galera's website , accessed on January 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ Frankfurt Book Fair - Brazil's Poets of Change. In: The time . October 9, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Daniel Galera's website , accessed on January 5, 2014
  7. ↑ Filho, Rubens Ewald Resenha de Caos sem Dono ( Memento of 28 May 2008 at the Internet Archive ). Uol Cinema , accessed December 13, 2008.
  8. ↑ Assis, Diego. "Daniel Galera agarra o osso do romance", Folha de São Paulo , São Paulo, May 26, 2003.
  9. ^ “A voz de uma geração”, Gazeta do Povo , Curitiba, May 7, 2006.
  10. ^ "Biblioteca Nacional divulga seus premiados" O Globo , Rio de Janeiro, December 10, 2008.
  11. ↑ The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists. In: Granta - The Magazine of The New Writing # 121. July 5, 2012, archived from the original on June 30, 2012 ; accessed on January 5, 2014 .
  12. ^ A b Daniel Galera vence Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura. In: O Estado de S. Paulo . November 25, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014 (Portuguese).
  13. ↑ a b Câmara Brasileira do Livro divulga os vencedores do 55º Prêmio Jabuti. November 8, 2013, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; Retrieved January 5, 2014 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Galera, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo