Luiz Ruffato
Brazilian writer · Brazil · On the map · Writers · Born 1961 · age 65
Luiz Fernando Ruffato de Souza is a contemporary Brazilian writer. Ruffato worked as a journalist in São Paulo and has published two short story collections and a number of novels. Ruffato's debut novel, Eles eram muitos cavalos (2001) won an APCA literary prize.
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The fifth book, Domingos sem Deus (2011), in his series Temporary Hell won the Casa de las Américas Prize in 2013. In 2012, Ruffato became a Writer in Residence at the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley.
