Alexandre Vidal Porto
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Alexandre Vidal Porto is a Brazilian writer and career diplomat, the author of five novels published by Companhia das Letras, among them Sodomita (2023), winner of the National Library’s Machado de Assis Prize.
Alexandre Vidal Porto is a writer and career diplomat. He spent his childhood in São Paulo and his youth in Fortaleza. He worked as a lawyer and holds a master's degree in law from Harvard University. He wrote a blog for Bravo! magazine and was a columnist for the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.
Alexandre Vidal Porto is a writer and career diplomat. He spent his childhood in São Paulo and his youth in Fortaleza. He worked as a lawyer and holds a master's degree in law from Harvard University. He wrote a blog for Bravo! magazine and was a columnist for the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.
He is the author of the novels Matias na cidade (2005; revised edition, 2023); Sergio Y. vai à América (2014), winner of the Paraná Literature Prize; Cloro (2018), a finalist for the Jabuti Prize; Sodomita (2023), winner of the Mix Literário Prize and of the Brazilian National Library's Machado de Assis Prize; and Só depois entenderei (2026) — all published by Companhia das Letras.
Over the years he has lived in São Paulo, Fortaleza, Brasília, New York, Santiago de Chile, Cambridge, Washington, Mexico City, Tokyo and Frankfurt. Alexandre is fond of animals, of walking and of conversation with friends. He now lives in Amsterdam with his husband and their two dogs.
Solitude, desire, and choice in the urban experience of São Paulo.
Identity, displacement, and the limits of fully understanding another person.
Desire, repression, a double life, and late self-recognition.
History, persecution, desire, and freedom in colonial Brazil.
A clandestine love, the early internet, and what time reorganizes in memory.
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