Miguel del Castillo (born 1987) is a
Brazilian writer.
Biography
Miguel del Castillo was born in
Rio de Janeiro
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in 1987 to an
Uruguayan
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father and a
Brazilian mother. He studied architecture at
PUC-Rio, where he was also editor of the journal ''Noz''. In 2010 he moved to
São Paulo
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, where he worked for the
Cosac Naify publishing house.
He is the author of the short story book ''Restinga'' (2015) and the novel ''Cancún'' (2019, finalist for the
São Paulo Literature Prize), both published by
Companhia das Letras. The film rights for ''Cancún'' were sold to director
Carolina Jabor.
As a translator, he translated several books from Spanish into Portuguese, by authors such as
Juan Carlos Onetti,
Alejandro Zambra and
Julián Herbert.
He was chosen as one of the best young Brazilian writers by Granta magazine in 2011/12, and his short story ''Violeta'' was included in the resulting anthology. In 2018 he was writer-in-residence at
Fondation Jan Michalski in Switzerland. He has acted as curator of the Photography Library of
Moreira Salles Institute.
A postgraduate student in at the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at
USP, he has researched the life and work of Uruguayan writer
Felisberto Hernández.
[''Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists''. Granta Publishers 2011/12]
References
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1987 births
Living people
Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian writers