Odorico Leal

Odorico Leal was born in Picos, Piauí, in 1983. He has a PhD in Brazilian Literature from Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and has translated authors such as Hisham Matar, Toni Morrison and Joseph Brodsky. Nostalgias canibais (Âyiné, 2024) is his literary debut. In the novellas and short stories, the author creates a set of narratives that span the history of Brazil from the colonial period to the recent polarization of political conflicts. Through a good-humored narration, the sensitive issues and unresolved events in the country are presented in an equally satirical and farcical tone. In his first work of fiction, the author experiments with registers that transition with originality between realism and fantasy, that is capable of incorporating the metamorphoses of the language, producing a book that offers a vertiginous and fertile reading.