Joca Reiners Terron

Joca Reiners Terron was born in Cuiabá in 1968. He founded the publishing house Ciência do Acidente, through which he published his first book of poems, Electroencefalodrama (1998).
A editora também lançou seu romance de estreia, Não há nada lá (2001, Companhia das Letras in 2011), and his second book of poems, Anônimo animal (2002).
Terron publicou os livros de contos Hotel Hell (Livros do Mal, 2003), Curva de rio sujo (Planeta, 2003) and Sonho interrompido por guilhotina (Casa da Palavra, 2006), as well as Guia de ruas sem saída, graphic novel illustrated by André Ducci (Edith, 2012). In 2010, he received the Machado de Assis Prize from the National Library for the novel Do fundo do poço se vê a lua (Companhia das Letras, 2010). He published A tristeza extraordinária do leopardo-das-neves (Companhia das Letras, 2013), Noite dentro da noite (Companhia das Letras, 2017), A morte e o meteoro (Todavia, 2019) and O riso dos ratos (Todavia, 2021), among others. His latest novel is Onde pastam os minotauros (Todavia, 2023), awarded by APCA in 2023.