Jeferson Tenório

(Brazil, 1977)

He was born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1977, and lives in Porto Alegre. He holds a doctorate in literary theory from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS). Columnist in newspapers Zero Hora and Uol/Folha de São Paulo until April 2023. He was a visiting professor of literature at Brown University, USA. His texts have been adapted for the theater and his short stories have been translated into English and Spanish. He is the author of Estela without God  (2018) and The Flipside of Skin  (2020), which won the Jabuti Award. He sold the rights to Portugal, Italy, England, Canada, France, Mexico, Slovakia, Sweden, China, Belgium and the United States.
Tenório presents an unusual ability to conceive and structure characters, and to deal with the complexities and tragedies of family relationships. His works have consolidated him as one of the most powerful and courageous voices in contemporary Brazilian literature.

Antônio Xerxenesky

(Brazil, 1984)

He was born in 1984 in Porto Alegre and moved to São Paulo. He is a writer, translator, teacher and editor. He is the author of several novels, including Uma tristeza infinita (2021), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature, As Preguntas (2017). He holds a PhD in Literary Theory from the University of São Paulo and he teaches creative writing workshops and literature and philosophy courses, covering topics such as Roberto Bolaño, Thomas Pynchon, Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory. He currently works as a fiction editor at Companhia das Letras, in charge of the Penguin classics label.

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São Paulo Prize for Literature

Maria Alzira Brum Lemos

(Brazil)

She is a bilingual writer, in Portuguese and Spanish. She has a PhD in communication and semiotics from PUC-São Paulo, and a degree in history and philosophy of science. Creator and coordinator of the Texts Creation and Development Workshop-Laboratory (collective, in-person, online). She is an independent translator, teacher and researcher. She has published, in addition to more than twelve collective books, A Ordem Secreta dos Ornitorricos (Brazil, Amauta, 2008, Peru, Borrador, 2009, Mexico, Aldus, 2014), Novela suvenir (Mexico, Fonca-Santa Muerte Cartonera, 2009, and 2013 Editorial, 2014, Peru, Punto de Narrativa, 2010), No hacerlo (Mexico, Librosampleados, 2014), Muestra táctil and Ensayo para no morir en la playa (Curitiba, Medusa, 2017), Gx2-Realidade total (São Paulo, Desconciertos, 2017). 

She was curator, among others, of the Transitive Americas project, carried out in Curitiba and Foz do Iguaçu, in 2017. She participated in anthologies, artistic projects and residencies in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, the United States, Argentina, Spain, Japan, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Italy. Reviews, commentaries and academic articles on her work have been published in Brazil, Portugal, United States, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, among others.

She has participated in literary fairs and festivals in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. She also collaborated in various media in several countries with articles, essays, fiction.
Her creative work includes collective works and performances with different groups, materials, languages and proposals. She has taught courses, as a visiting professor, among others, at the Federal University of Paraná (master's degree and doctorate in Latin American literature) and at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC) (master's degree in creative writing and doctorate in history).

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Latin art and literature. Philos magazine