João Paulo Cuenca

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João Paulo Cuenca at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013
João Paulo Cuenca 2012

João Paulo Cuenca (* 1978 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian writer.

Cuenca published his first novel Corpo Presente in 2003 , and in 2007 his second, very successful novel O Dia Mastroianni (German: Mastroianni. One day in the translation by Michael Kegler 2013) was published. The Hay Festival then put him on the list of the 39 most important Latin American writers under 39.

From 2003 to 2010 Cuenca wrote columns for various newspapers and magazines, including Tribuna da Imprensa , Jornal do Brasil and from 2006 to 2010 for O Globo , some of which were published as a book in 2012 under the title A última madrugada .

In 2011 he published his first play Terror . One of his longer stays abroad led him a. a. to Tokyo. This inspired him to write the novel O único final feliz para uma estória de amor é um acidente (German: The only happy ending to a love story is an accident , 2012). In 2012 the literary magazine Granta named him on the list of the 20 most important young Brazilian authors. In addition to his writing activities, he has been a columnist for the daily Folha de São Paulo since 2013 .

In 2015, Cuenca published his first feature film under the title A morte de JP Cuenca (English: The Death of JP Cuenca), as well as the novel Descobri que estava morto , first in Portugal and later in Brazil .

Journalistic contributions from Cuenca have appeared on The Intercept Brasil , El País , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel , among others . He also worked as a columnist for Deutsche Welle , from which he was fired in June 2020 after a critical tweet on Twitter about Jair Bolsonaro .

João Paulo Cuenca has lived in Berlin since 2019 .

Works

  • Corpo presente , novel. Planeta 2002.
  • O dia Mastroianni , Roman, Agir 2007. Translation: Mastroianni. One day . German by Michael Kegler. A1 Verlag , Munich 2013.
  • O único final feliz para uma história de amor é um acidente , Roman. Companhia das Letras , São Paulo 2010. Translation: The only happy ending to a love story is an accident . German by Michael Kegler. A1 Verlag, Munich 2012.
  • A Última Madrugada. Crônicas . LeYa , São Paulo 2012, ISBN 978-85-8044-439-1 .
  • Descobri que estava morto , novel. Editorial Caminho , 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists. (No longer available online.) In: Granta - The Magazine of The New Writing # 121. July 5, 2012, archived from the original on June 30, 2012 ; accessed on November 4, 2019 . Therein pp. 215–226: Before the Fall.
  2. ^ The wall in Brasília. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 10, 2016, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ A look into the dark soul of Brazil. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 5, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ João Paulo Cuenca. In: LCB diplomatique - The news portal of the Literary Colloquium Berlin . Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bolsonaro's Wave. In: Telepolis . June 29, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ "Deutsche Welle" dismisses columnists. In: The daily newspaper . June 30, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cuenca, João Paulo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro