Born 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Chico Buarque is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. Although he first made his name as a musician, in 1968 Buarque was imprisoned by the Brazilian dictatorship for writing and composing the existential play Roda Viva. During the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with other artists in protest against the dictatorship. He is the author of numerous novels; in 2010 Spilt Milk won both of Brazil's leading literary prizes, the PrΓͺmio Jabuti and the PrΓͺmio Portugal Telecom. He lives in Rio de Janeiro.
Praise for Chico Buarque:
βChico Buarque is at the forefront of a wave of writing that should make you rethink everything you thought you knew about South American literatureβ Jonathan Franzen
'One of the outstanding Brazilian novelists of our timeβ Financial Times
βTry to imagine that Bob Dylan and Ian McEwan were the same person. That is Buarqueβ Sunday Times
'Chico Buarque has crossed a chasm with his writing, and arrived at the other side. To the side where one finds work executed with masteryβ JosΓ© Saramago