ON THE AUTHOR

Bernardo Carvalho was born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro. He is a writer, journalist, and weekly columnist for the Folha de São Paulo. As well as Fear of de Sade, he has published a collection of stories, Aberração [Aberration] and the novels Onze [Eleven], Os bêbados e os sonâmbulos [Drunks and Sleepwalkers], Teatro [Drama], As iniciais [The Initials], Nove noites [Nine nights] and Mongólia. Some of these books have also been published in France, Portugal, Italy and Sweden.