Flávio Carneiro

Flávio Carneiro was born in the year 1962; he is a Brazilian writer. He moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro in the early part of 1980s and moved to mountain city of Teresópolis in the same city in the year 2003. He is a novelist, essayist, scriptwriter, a critic and a lecturer in the university.

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His fictional works consists of three novels, novellas for the children of the country and for the young people of the country and a collection of short stories for the schools of the country.

He has won a good number of literary prizes and awards in the country and the most recent of them is Barco a Vapor Prize, which he won in the year 2007 for the work called A Distância das Coisas.

Literary Awards

Ø  3rd Barco a Vapor Prize (2007) for A Distância das Coisas (The Distance of Things)

Ø  Tiokô Prize (2005–2007) for his body of work; Highly Recommendable for Young People Prize – FNLIJ (2001) for the novella Lalande

Ø  Octavio de Farias Prize 1995 for the collection of short stories Da Matriz ao Beco e Depois.

Ø  His novel A Confissão (The Confession) was a finalist in the Prêmio Jabuti and the 5th Zaffari & Bourbon Prize in 2007.

Books

Ø  A Ilha, 2011

Ø  Passe de Letra: literatura & futebol, 2009

Ø  A distância das coisas, 2008

Ø  A Confissão, 2006

Ø  Prezado Ronaldo, 2005

Ø  No país do presente: ficção brasileira no início do século XXI, 2005

Ø  O livro de Marco, 2003

Ø  O Campeonato, 2002

Ø  Entre o cristal e a chama: ensaios sobre o leitor, 2001

Ø  Lalande, 2000

Ø  A casa dos relógios, 1999

Ø  Da matriz ao beco e depois, 1994

Ø  Acorda, Rita!, 1986

Ø  O Livro Roubado, 2014

Ø  Devagar e Divagando, 2014

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