Michel Laub
Michel Laub (* 1973 in Porto Alegre , Rio Grande do Sul ) is a Brazilian writer .
biography
Michel Laub first studied law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He broke off studying journalism at the same time and worked as a lawyer in Porto Alegre until 1997 .
As a journalist he wrote about politics and economics in magazines such as Carta Capital and República . In 1997 he moved to São Paulo and started working in the editorial department of the cultural magazine Bravo! to work, of which he became editor-in-chief. In 1998 he published his first volume of short stories, Não Depois do que Aconteceu. Today he lives as a freelance journalist and writer in São Paulo.
His first novel Música Anterior (2001), for which he was signed by the publishing house Companhia das Letras in São Paulo, received the young talent prize Prêmio Érico Veríssimo of the Brazilian writers' association União Brasileira de Escritores . In 2005 he received a grant from the Fundação Vitae, which enabled him to write his second novel O Segundo Tempo (2006). His fifth novel Diário da queda (2011, German diary of a fall ) received the Prêmio Brasília de Literatura and the Prêmio Bravo! , has been nominated for numerous Brazilian literary prizes and has been translated into several languages. It is a generational novel about a grandfather who never talks about his time in Auschwitz nor about his emigration to Brazil, about a father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and about the first-person narrator who writes the diary mentioned in the title. In 2016 Diary of the Fall was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award .
Works
- 1998: Não Depois do que Aconteceu. Instituto Estadual do Livro, Porto Alegre 1998. Short stories
- 2001: Música anterior. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2001. Novel
- 2004: Longe da água. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2004, ISBN 85-359-0481-6 . novel
- 2006: O segundo tempo. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2006, ISBN 85-359-0924-9 . novel
- 2009: O gato diz adeus. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2009, ISBN 978-85-359-1421-4 . novel
- 2011: Diário da queda. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2011, ISBN 978-85-359-1817-5 . novel
- German edition: Diary of a fall . German by Michael Kegler . Klett-Cotta 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-93972-9 .
- 2013: A maçã envenenada. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2013, ISBN 978-85-359-2311-7 . novel
Web links
- Literature by and about Michel Laub in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Author's blog
- Michel Laub in the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural da Literatura Brasileira (Portuguese)
- Michel Laub on companhiadasletras.com (Portuguese)
- Michel Laub on klett-cotta.de
- Literature by and about Michel Laub in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/eine-geschichte-aus-der-hoelle.950.de.html?dram:article_id=260715
- ↑ Wilson Martins: Gauchos. In: O Globo. Rio de Janeiro April 2nd, 1999 . Retrieved August 26, 2013 (Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leaves, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Porto Alegre , Brazil |