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| Born | 1961  |
| Website | www |
Alberto Mussa (born 28 June 1961) is a Brazilian writer and translator.
Alberto Mussa | |
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| Born | 1961 |
| Website | www |
Alberto Mussa (born 28 June 1961) is a Brazilian writer and translator.
Mussa was born in Rio de Janeiro, in a family of Indigenous and Lebanese descent. [1] [2] He first studied mathematics, then graduated in Languages at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. [3]
His writings fuse Western narrative tradition with mythological accounts from other cultures, such as Afro-Brazilian , pre-Islamic Arabian and indigenous Brazil. His works have been published in 17 countries and 15 languages, such as Argentina, Cuba, Portugal, Italy, France, England, Romania, Turkey, Spain and Egypt, and were awarded prizes such as the Premio Casa de Las Americas, the Prêmio Machado de Assis and the Prêmio APCA. [4]
Together with historian Luiz Antonio Simas, he wrote Samba de enredo: história e arte, a study about the aesthetic evolution of samba-enredo. [5]
Mussa is the author of Compêndio Mítico do Rio de Janeiro[Rio de Janeiro's Mythical Compendium] a series of five crime novels, each one set in a different century and aiming to portrait the history of Rio through reports of actual or fictional crimes. [6]