Beatriz Bracher

Beatriz Bracher
Beatriz Bracher at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in 2013.
Born	7 August 1961 São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, publisher

Beatriz Bracher (born August 7, 1961) is a Brazilian writer.

Bracher was born in São Paulo, and studied Brazilian and Portuguese Literature at the Pontifical Catholic Universities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.[1] She was the founder and editor of the literary magazine 34 Letras from 1988 to 1991 and of Editora 34 publishing house, from 1992 to 2000.[2] Bracher's first novel, Azul e Dura, was published in 2002. Her novel Anatomia do Paraíso (2015) won the São Paulo Prize for Literature and Rio Prize for Literature.[3][4][5]

Bracher wrote the screenplay for the films Cronicamente Inviável (2000), Os Inquilinos (2009, Best Screenplay award at Festival do Rio) and O Abismo Prateado (2011).

Published books

Novels

• 2002 - Azul e Dura
• 2004 - Não Falei (English translation: I Didn't Talk, translated by Adam Morris, New Directions Publishing, 2018 ISBN 978-0811227360)
• 2007 - Antonio (translation in progress. English, New Directions; Italian: Utopia)
• 2015 - Anatomia do Paraíso

Short stories

• 2009 - Meu Amor
• 2013 - Garimpo

References

1. "Entrevista - Beatriz Bracher - Revista Cult". revistacult.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). 28 March 2010. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
2. "Editora 34". www.editora34.com.br. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
3. "I Didn't Talk". n+1. 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
4. "Beatriz Bracher e Antonio Arnoni Prado vencem o Prêmio Rio de Literatura - Cultura - Estadão". Estadão (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-02-23.
5. "'Anatomia do paraíso' é escolhido o melhor romance de 2015". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2018-02-23.