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Fortaleza, Ceará Brazil
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Writer
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About
The Brazilian novelist, playwright, script writer, Ruy Câmara, has a degree in mechanical technology and sociology while also specializing in drama for theater, cinema and television. The Last Songs of Autumn, his first novel, was a first Finalist for the Jabuti Prize of the Brazilian Book Chamber in 2004; was awarded the Fiction Prize by the Brazilian Academy of Letters as the Best Novel of 2004 and Prize for Translation, by Writers' Association of Bucharest, 2009. The author lives in Fortaleza – Ceará, and his work, called by critics a contemporary classic, has been translated and published in more than 35 countries.
