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 he won the 2025 Cesare De Michelis International Award for 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)
