Julián Fuks

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Julián Fuks (born 1981 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian writer , translator and literary critic .

Life

Julián Miguel Barbero Fuks' parents come from Argentina and fled the dictatorship in 1977 . In São Paulo he graduated in journalism from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and from 2004 wrote for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and the culture magazine Cult as a literary reporter and critic. In 2009 he received a master's degree in Latin American literature from the USP for a thesis on the Argentine writer Juan José Saer and in 2016 a doctorate from the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in literary theory for the work História abstrata do romance (“Abstract history of the novel ").

His first book, Fragmentos de Alberto, Ulisses, Carolina e eu , was published in 2004 by the renowned literary publisher 7Letras and received a young talent award; his second was published in 2007 under the title Histórias de literatura e cegueira (“Stories of Literature and Blindness”), finalist of the Prêmio literary prizes Jabuti and Prêmio Portugal Telecom . It consists of three largely independent parts on the writers Jorge Luis Borges , João Cabral de Melo Neto and James Joyce and their common biographical characteristic: blindness. The content of the book can be classified as essays, short stories or even novels. Tony Monti noted in 2009 in the magazine Terra : "Fuks alternates fiction, biographical data and excerpts from the works of each author in his texts without bothering to make his sources explicit in the course of the text."

His 2011 work Procura do romance (“Search for the Novel”) also made it into the final round of three literary prizes. In 2015 the family novel A resistência was published ; this was awarded the Prêmio Jabuti in 2016 and the Prémio José Saramago in 2017 . For work on another book, the writer Mia Couto became his literary mentor from 2016 to 2017 . In 2017 he took part in the 16th edition of the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (FLIP). In 2018 Fuks was awarded the Anna Seghers Prize .

He first achieved international fame with the story The Dinner ("Das Essen"), which was published in the British literary magazine Granta . In 2012, Granta named him among the top 20 Brazilian young authors. The story tells the appearance of a former Argentine army officer during a private family celebration.

Since 2009 he has published literary translations from Spanish, English and Finnish. His story Augen des Elends was published in German in 2013 in the anthology Wir sind Prepar. Young prose from Brazil .

Fonts

  • Fragmentos de Alberto, Ulisses, Carolina e eu. ( Coleção Rocinante ; 25). 7Letras, Rio de Janeiro 2004, ISBN 978-85-7577-124-2 . - Winner of the Prêmio Nascente da USP.
  • Histórias de literatura e cegueira. Record, Rio de Janeiro 2007, ISBN 978-85-01-07943-5 . - Finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Portugal Telecom.
  • Procura do romance. Record, Rio de Janeiro 2011, ISBN 978-85-01-09474-2 . - Finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti, the Prêmio Portugal Telecom and the Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura
  • A resistência. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2015, ISBN 978-85-359-2637-8 . - Prêmio Jabuti, Prémio José Saramago, Anna Seghers Prize.

Contributions to anthologies

  • The Dinner ( O jantar ). In: Granta. The magazine of new writing , London, No. 121, 2012, pp. 121-132, ISBN 978-1-90588-163-5 . ( Online , English).
  • Eyes of Misery ( Os olhos dos pobres ). In: We are ready. Young prose from Brazil , edited by Marlen Eckl, Verlag Letrrétage, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9812062-7-2 , pp. 153–162.

Translations

Awards

literature

  • Márcia Lígia Guidin: Um irmão possível. In: Jornal Rascunho. March 2016, Retrieved on April 25, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). Interview.
  • Pedro Miguel Silva: Entrevista: Julián Fuks. In: Deus me livros. March 15, 2016, Retrieved April 25, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature - Mia Couto and Julián Fuks. Rolex Mentors and Protégés, accessed April 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Julián Miguel Barbero Fuks: História abstrata do romance. São Paulo: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, University of São Paulo, 2016. Doctoral Thesis in Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada. ( Online ). [PDF; 1.31 MB], accessed April 26, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Tony Monti: As vísceras - pequena entrevista com Julián Fuks. In: Terra. Magazines. terramagazine.terra.com.br, February 6, 2009, accessed April 25, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Review: Ricardo Daehn: Em seu novo livro, Julián Fuks faz paralelo entre ficção e realidade. In: Correio Braziliense . February 2, 2012, Retrieved April 25, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Prêmio Jabuti 2 - Vencedores 2016 - Romance. In: com.br. Archived from the original on August 18, 2017 ; accessed on April 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Mentor and Protégé: Mia Couto & Julián Fuks. In: Port magazine. November 20, 2017, accessed April 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Flip autores - Julián Fuks. 2017, archived from the original on April 26, 2018 ; Retrieved April 26, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, original website no longer available).
  8. ↑ Anna Seghers Prize 2018 awarded / Manja Präkels and Julián Fuks awarded. In: boersenblatt.net. April 24, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fuks, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuks, Julián Miguel Barbero (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer, translator and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo