# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joao-almino
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:10:46.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joao-almino"
name: "João Almino"
slug: "joao-almino"
description: "João Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo, The Five Seasons of Love ; The Book of Emotions and Cidade Livre. His 2015 novel Enigmas da Primavera was published in English in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press and won the Jabuti Award for Best Brazilian Book in translation. His seventh novel was published in November 2017 in Brazil: Entre facas, algodão. His most recent novel, Homem de Papel, was published in 2022. He has also authored books of philosophical and literary essays. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), at the University of Brasília (UnB), the Instituto Rio Branco, Berkeley, Stanford and The University of Chicago. In 2017, he was elected as one of the 40 members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters."
tagline: "Brazilian novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jo%C3%A3o_Almino_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.22
  momentum:             1.095238095238095
  historical:           6.541721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "João Almino"
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    title: "چواو المينو"
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    title: "João Almino"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Almino"
    title: "João Almino"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Almino"
    title: "João Almino"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump