João Almino


João Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo, The Five Seasons of Love ; The Book of Emotions and Cidade Livre. His 2015 novelEnigmas da Primavera was published in English in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press. His most recent and seventh novel was published in November 2017 in Brazil: Entre facas, algodão. He has also authored books of philosophical and literary essays. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, at the University of Brasília, the Instituto Rio Branco, Berkeley, Stanford and The University of Chicago. In 2017, he was elected as one of the 40 members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Fiction

1988