As a child, I liked reading so much that I learned how to write with a special flair.  The outcome was predictable: I had no choice, so  I ended up as a journalist. I built my career in the Segundo Caderno, the cultural supplement of O Globo, a Rio newspaper, and I called it quits as a journalist for Veja  magazine.

I didn't go counter to the tenets of my generation: I married and unmarried. I have five little tykes who are not so small any more and who are the love of my life. 

I have traveled all over - and I continue doing so.  After graduating from the College of Social Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, I went on to study at the University of the Republic of Panama and at the University of Georgia, in the United States.  I still entertain the thought of continuing my studies.  My biggest fear is to become a birdbrain someday.

I have written five books:  A Thousand Years Minus Fifty, Santa Sofia, The Other Side of the Picture, The Portuguese Who Begot Us (A Trip to the World of Our Ancestors) and The Book of the Apocalypse According to a Witness. The first one was translated into Spanish and became quite smug with the wonderful reviews.  The second and third books came within an inch of winning a Jabuti Prize.  The fourth one was considered one of the best Brazilian books in the year 2000.  As for the fifth, well...you'd better read it quickly before the world comes to an end.

I'm a happy person, I do what I like.  I have friends, I enjoy my children, I laugh a lot, I listen to music, I read, I write and I love to travel.

Could anyone ask for more?  

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* A native of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

He is the author of the following biographies on this site:

  Afonso Henriques