Flávio Carneiro

Who is Flávio Carneiro?

Flávio Carneiro is a Brazilian writer. Born in Goiânia in 1962, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1980s and relocated to the mountain city of Teresópolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in 2003. A novelist, essayist, scriptwriter, literary critic, and university lecturer, he has written twelve books and two screenplays, and teaches Brazilian and Comparative Literature at Rio de Janeiro State University.

His fictional work includes three novels, novellas for children and young people, and a collection of short stories. He has won a number of literary awards, the most recent being the Barco a Vapor Prize, in 2007, for A Distância das Coisas. The film Bodas de Papel, which he co-wrote with Adriana Lisboa and André Sturm, won the Jury’s Prize at the Pernambuco Film Festival in 2008.