Emílio Fraia

Emilio Fraia was born in Sao Paulo in 1982. He is the author of three books. His most recent novel, Sebastopol (Sevastopol, Alfaguara, 2018) was the winner of the Biblioteca Nacional Prize, finalist of the Oceanos Prize and Jabuti Prize. and published by New Directions in the US, Lolli Editions in the UK and Tranan in Sweden. It will be adapted for the big screen by Prodigo Films. He was one of Granta’s twenty Best Brazilian Young Writers in 2012. He has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship, a traditional residency program for international writers at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy in the 2022 season. He is currently an editor of contemporary fiction at Companhia das Letras.