Born 1952 · Brazil
Jabuti 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Beatriz and the Poet”
Cristovão Tezza · 70 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Stuck at home in the pandemic after years of political dread, the translator Beatriz is drawn into a hesitant, unlikely bond with a young poet, Gabriel.
Jabuti 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Tyranny of Love”
Cristovão Tezza · 66 when first published
Novel · 176 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:Standing at a red light, an economist in his fifties resolves to renounce sex for good, just as his marriage, his job and his country seem to be collapsing.
Jabuti 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Translator”
Cristovão Tezza · 64 when first published
Novel · 208 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In Curitiba before the 2014 World Cup, a translator battling an ornate Catalan author gets a mysterious empty envelope and an offer to interpret for a FIFA official.
Jabuti 2008 · Winner
O Filho Eterno
Cristovão Tezza · 55 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A struggling writer in his thirties becomes a father in the early 1980s, and the son he longed for is born with Down syndrome.
Jabuti 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Photographer”
Cristovão Tezza · 52 when first published
Novel · 223 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In Curitiba, days before the 2002 presidential vote, an unnamed photographer is paid in cash to secretly photograph a young woman, and five lives quietly intersect in one day.