Bernardo Carvalho

Bernardo Carvalho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. He has been correspondent for A Folha De Sao Paulo in Paris and New York. He is the author of a number of other novels - most recently Mongolia - winner of the Prêmio Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious literary prize, of which Nine Nights is the first to be published in English.

Bernardo Carvalho lives in São Paulo.