Born 1960 · Brazil
Jabuti 2014 · Winner
Bernardo Carvalho · 53 when first published
Novel · 168 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:Stopped by federal police at the airport as he heads for China, an ex-banker who studies Mandarin unleashes a flood of bigotry that only deepens his trouble.
Jabuti 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Sun Sets in São Paulo”
Bernardo Carvalho · 47 when first published
Novel · 168 pages · Historical, War, Love
AI-generated summary:Late one night in Liberdade, São Paulo's Japanese district, a restaurateur singles out a lingering diner, decides he must be a novelist, and entrusts him with a wartime love story.
Jabuti 2004 · Winner
Bernardo Carvalho · 43 when first published
Novel · 192 pages
AI-generated summary:Just posted to Beijing, a Brazilian diplomat is ordered across the border to track down a young compatriot, a photographer who went missing in the Altai a year before.
Jabuti 2003 · Winner
Nove Noites
Bernardo Carvalho · 42 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A Brazilian writer reads by chance about Buell Quain, a gifted American ethnographer who took his own life in the backlands in 1939, and cannot stop digging into why.