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Miguel del Castillo (born 1987) is a Brazilian writer.


Biography

Miguel del Castillo was born in
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in 1987 to an
Uruguayan Uruguayans () are people identified with the country of Uruguay, through citizenship or descent. Uruguay is home to people of different ethnic origins. As a result, many Uruguayans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizen ...
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
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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


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Castillo, Miguel del 1987 births Living people Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian writers