Julián Fuks

Julián Fuks was born in São Paulo in 1981 and is the son of Argentinian parents. He has worked as a reporter for the newspaper Folha de S Paulo and as a reviewer for the magazine Cult. Fuks is the author of several novels and collections of short stories and his work has been shortlisted for several prestigious prizes, including the Telecom Award and the São Paulo Prize for Literature. His latest novel, Resistance, is his first to be translated in to English.

In the terrifying atmosphere of late 1970s Buenos Aires, a young militant couple engaged in the resistance against the military regime adopt a child. Amid ever-growing oppression, the couple and their baby flee to Brazil, believing it to be a more tranquil country in which to raise a family and pursue their lives. In Brazil, the couple add to their brood with a biological son and daughter, and family relations become more complicated.

Portuguese tabloid Diario de Noticias considers Julián ‘to be one of the best writers among the new generation of Brazilian authors’.