Luis Schwarcz

Luiz Schwarcz was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1956. He began his career as an editor at Brasiliense and later founded Companhia das Letras, in 1986. In 2017, he received the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2024 was given the Cesare de Michelis Award for International Publishing. He is the author of the children’s books Minha vida de goleiro (1999) and Em busca do Thesouro da Juventude (2003), the short story collections Discurso sobre o capim (2005) and Linguagem de sinais (2010), and the memoir The Absent Moon (2023).