Flávio Carneiro is a Brazilian writer. Born in Goiânia

Goiânia

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 in 1962, he moved to Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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 in the early 1980s and relocated to the mountain city of Teresópolis

Teresópolis

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, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in 2003. Novelist, scriptwriter, literary critic, and university lecturer

Lecturer

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, he has written twelve books and two screenplays, and teaches Brazilian and Comparative Literature

Comparative literature

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 at Rio de Janeiro State University.

His fiction includes novellas for children and young people, a collection of short stories, and two adult novels. He has won a number of literary award

Literary award

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s, the most recent being the Barco a Vapor Prize, in 2007, for A Distância das Coisas (The Distance of Things). The film Bodas de Papel (Paper Wedding), which he co-wrote with Adriana Lisboa and André Sturm, won the Jury’s Prize at the Pernambuco Film Festival in 2008.

Literary Awards

• 3rd Barco a Vapor Prize (2007) for A Distância das Coisas (The Distance of Things)
• Tiokô Prize (2005–2007) for his body of work; Highly Recommendable for Young People Prize – FNLIJ (2001) for the novella Lalande
• Octavio de Farias Prize 1995 for the collection of short stories Da Matriz ao Beco e Depois.
• His novel A Confissão (The Confession) was a finalist in the Prêmio Jabuti
  Prêmio Jabuti
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  and the 5th Zaffari & Bourbon Prize in 2007.

Books

• Passe de Letra: literatura & futebol, for release in 2009
• A distância das coisas, 2008
• A Confissão, 2006
• Prezado Ronaldo, 2005
• No país do presente: ficção brasileira no início do século XXI, 2005
• O livro de Marco, 2003
• O Campeonato, 2002
• Entre o cristal e a chama: ensaios sobre o leitor, 2001
• Lalande, 2000
• A casa dos relógios, 1999
• Da matriz ao beco e depois, 1994
• Acorda, Rita!, 1986