Luiz Ruffato

Quick Facts

Full Name	Luiz Ruffato
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Feb 4, 1961(1961-02-04)
Age	63
Birthplace	Cataguases
Country	Brazil
Birth City	Minas Gerais
Horoscope	Aquarius

Luiz Ruffato Biography

Luiz Ruffato is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on February 4, 1961 in Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Luiz Fernando Ruffato De Souza (Cataguases Brazil, February 1961), is a Brazilian contemporary writer. Ruffato, a graduate of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais), was a journalist and author in Sao Paulo. He also published many fiction books, including Historia das Remorsos e Rancores (1998) as well as Eles eram muitos cavalos (2001). This book won the APCA literary award.

Ruffato began a series called “Temporary Hell” in 2005 with the novel Mamma Son Tanto Felice. It consisted of five volumes. O Mundo Inimigo was published one year later. And, later on, Vista Parcial da Noite (2006), O Livro das Impossibilidades (2008) and Domingos sem Deus (2011).

In 2007 Ruffato was invited to write for the collection “Amores Expressos,” a collection of love stories published by Companhia das Letras, one of Brazil’s most important publishing houses. The project sent different writers to different cities in the world, where their assignment was to reside and to write a love story. Ruffato was invited to travel to Lisbon in Portugal. In 2009 he published the novel Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você as the result of his participation in the project. The book tells the story of Sérgio, a native of Cataguases, who moves to Lisbon in search of work and as a way to restart his life away from the hardship of his native city. The story is told through the life of Sérgio and depicts the drama of many Brazilian immigrants that go to Portugal in search of better conditions of life but end up working lower skill and lower paying jobs.

Ruffato’s project was fictionalize the story of the Brazilian working class, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty- first century. Each volume deals with a particular moment in the history of Brazilian proletariat. According to Ruffato, in a 2008 interview,:

Ruffato also edited the poetry collections As mascaras singulares (2002) and Paraguas verdes (2011). Ruffato also published an essay on the modernist movement in his native Cataguases. He organized several other anthologies, such as 25 Mulheres que estao Fazendo A Nova Literatura Brasileira (2006) and the short story by Luiz Fernando Emediato (2004).

Luiz Ruffato Net Worth

Luiz Ruffato is one of the richest Journalist from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Luiz Ruffato 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ruffato’s first published work, Historias de Remorsos e Rancores (1998) was his short stories collection. Historias de Remorsos e Rancores, a collection of seven stories, was centered around a group of characters from Cataguases (Ruffato’s hometown). These stories are not interrelated and do not follow a chronological sequence. They are only connected by the characters of the working poor, who are often unemployed or involved in illegal trades like prostitution. Specialized critics enjoyed the book.

Ruffato also published a collection of short stories in 2000, called “os Sobreviventes”. In 2001, the book was awarded an honorable mention at Premio Casa des Americas. Six stories are included in the book: “A solucao”, O segredo”, Carta a uma Jovem Senhora”, “Carta ala jovem senhora”, and “Aquario”. All characters are from Cataguases’ lower proletariat. The stories all deal with hardships of life, suffering of lower classes, and an omnipresence of hopelessness. The stories’ language explores the spoken vernacular as well as popular expressions.

Ruffato’s first novel, eles eram muitos cavalos was published in 2001. It won the prize Troféu APCA e Prêmio Machado de Assis for best novel of 2001. With a non linear structure, the book is made of 70 fragments. All fragments happen in the same day (05/09/2000) in the city of São Paulo. The novel’s title is an allusion to a poem by the Brazilian poet Cecília Meirelles, called “Dos Cavalos da Inconfidência”.

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