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Prémio Camões · 2022 · Winner

Nova FronteiraJanuary 1, 1985Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prémio Camões	2022	Winner

About This Book

Set in New York in the late 1960s, follows a young Brazilian diplomat who leads a secret gay life while the Brazilian military government's agents keep him under surveillance, a pioneering novel of gay identity and political exile.

About the Author

Silviano SantiagoBR

Silviano Santiago is a Brazilian novelist, critic, and essayist born in 1936 in Formiga, Minas Gerais. He is one of the most intellectually distinguished figures in Brazilian literary culture, known both as a novelist and as the formulator of influential theoretical concepts, particularly the notion of the 'entre-lugar' (in-between-place) of Latin American literature. Santiago spent years studying and teaching in France and the United States, and this cosmopolitan experience has shaped both his fiction and his critical thinking. Read more →