Luiz Schwarcz

Luiz Schwarcz was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1956. He began his career as an editor at the publishing house Brasiliense and later founded the publishing house Companhia das Letras in 1986. In 2017, he received the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award for his overall contribution to the publishing world. He is the author of the children’s books *Minha vida de goleiro* (1999) and *Em busca do Thesouro da Juventude* (2003), and the short story collections *Discurso sobre o capim* (2005) and *Linguagem de sinais* (2010).