Luiz Ruffato

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. 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.