Julián Fuks
Julián Fuks was born in São Paulo and is the son of Argentinian parents. He has worked as a reporter for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and as a reviewer for the magazine Cult. Fuks is the author of Fragmentos de Alberto, Ulisses, Carolina e eu (2004) and Histórias de literatura e cegueira (2007), which was a finalist for the Telecom Award as well as the Jabuti Award. His novel Procura do romance (2011) was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature and longlisted for the Telecom Award. His latest novel, A resistência, was awarded the 2017 José Saramago Prize. He was one of Granta‘s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in 2012.
Julián Fuks on Granta.com
Fiction | The Online Edition
Occupation
Julián Fuks
‘They tell me you write about exile, about lives adrift, about trees whose roots are buried thousands of kilometres away, he said in his harsh accent, his hoarseness aggravated by the static on the telephone line.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Brazilian Writers Define Betrayal
Various Contributors
‘So that was betrayal: in a magical realm, assassins and elves were involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the king. Or something like that.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Pola Oloixarac on Julián Fuks
Julián Fuks & Pola Oloixarac
‘It is a rare pleasure to read Saer’s influence through the Brazilian music of Julián Fuks’ language, with his keen and almost obsessive eye for detail.’
Fiction | Issue 121
The Dinner
Julián Fuks
‘Sebastián can do nothing but seek refuge in his dinner plate.’
