Collection: Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu (1948–1996) was one of the most influential Brazilian writers of the 1970s and ’80s. The author of twenty books, including twelve story collections and two novels, he has been awarded major literary prizes, including the prestigious Jabuti Prize for Fiction a total of three times. During the military dictatorship in Brazil, his writing about queer erotic life was heavily censored. In 1994, while exiled in France, he tested HIV positive. He died two years later in his hometown.
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