João Paulo Cuenca (born August 4, 1978), also known as J.P. Cuenca, is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker. He was selected for Bogotá39 in 2007 and for Best of Young Brazilian Writers by Granta in 2012.
Career
João Paulo Cuenca was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1978. He is the author of “Body present” (2003), “The Mastroianni Day” (2007), “The only happy ending for a love story is an accident” (2010) and “The day I found out I was dead” (2015). His novels have been translated into eight languages and have had their rights sold to eleven countries. He has been a weekly columnist for major Brazilian newspapers and magazines since 2003 and now writes for Folha de S Paulo, the biggest national newspaper in Brazil. An anthology of his articles, “The last dawn”, was published in 2012.
In 2007, he was selected by the Hay Festival and the organisers of the Bogotá World Book Capital as one of the 39 highest profile Latin American writers under the age of 39. He was also selected for the first issue of Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in the Granta literary magazine in 2012. In recent years, he has written plays, films, and television scripts. "The Death of J.P. Cuenca" (2015), which was included in the first Venice Biennale College Production Lab, was his first feature film as a writer/director, premiered at the Rio and São Paulo International Film Festivals and had its European premiere at the main competition selection of the CPH:DOX in Denmark.
Apart from writing novels, Cuenca worked as a journalist and columnist for various Brazilian newspapers and magazines, among them O Globo. An anthology of his chronicles and columns appeared in the volume A última madrugada (2012; tr: The last dawn). João Paulo Cuenca's writing has appeared in anthologies both inside and outside of Brazil.
Novels
Corpo presente, Planeta, 2002 O dia Mastroianni, Agir, 2007 O único final feliz para uma história de amor é um acidente, Companhia das Letras, 2010 Descobri que estava morto, Caminho, 2015
Chronicles A Última Madrugada, LeYa, 2012
Anthologies Parati para mim, Rio de Janeiro: Agir, 2003 Prosas Cariocas, Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra, 2004 Contos sobre tela, Rio de Janeiro: Pinakotheke, 2005 Paralelos, Rio de Janeiro: Agir, 2005 Bogotá 39, Antologia de cuento latinoamericano, Bogotá:Ediciones B, 2007 Cenas da Favela Geração Editorial, 2007 B39 — Antologia de cuento latinoamericano Ediciones B, Uruguai 2007 Bogotá 39, Antologia de cuento latinoamericano, Bogotá:Ediciones B, 2007 Cem melhores crônicas brasileiras Editora Objetiva, 2007 Missives – Nouvelles brésilliennes contemporaines Société Littéraire, França, 2008 10 cariocas, Rosario: Ferreyra Editor, 2009 Libardade até agora Mobile Editorial, 2011 Granta 9, Alfaguara, 2012.
Translated publications Una giornata Mastroianni Cavalo di Fierro, Italy, 2008 O Dia Mastroianni Caminho Editorial, Portugal, 2009 Mastroianni. Ein Tag A-1, Germany, 2013 O único final feliz para uma história de amor é um acidente, Caminho Editorial, Portugal, 2011 El único final feliz para una história de amor es un accidente, (trad. Martín Caamaño), Editorial Lengua de Trapo, Spain, 2012 Das einzig glückliche Ende einer Liebesgeschichte ist ein Unfall, (trad. Michael Kegler), A1 Verlag, Germany 2012 The only happy ending for a love story is an accident, (trad. Elizabeth Lowe), Tagus Press, US, 20123 La seule fin heureuse pour une histoire d’amour, c’est un accident, (trad. Dominique Nédellec), Cambourakis, France, 20123 Ainoa onnellinen loppu rakkaustarinalle on onnettomuus, (trad. Pirkka Valkama), Ivan Rotta & Co, Finland, 2014 Singurul final fericit pentru o poveste de dragoste e un accident, (trad. Iolanda Vasile), Polirom, Romania, 2015 Cuerpo Presente, (trad. Martín Caamaño), Dakota, Argentina, set to be published 2016 Ho scoperto di essere morto, (trad. Eloisa del Giudice), Miraggi Edizioni, Torino, 2016
Film The Death of J.P. Cuenca, Duas Mariola, 2015
TV Afinal, o que querem as mulheres? (com Cecilia Giannetti e Michel Melamed) Rede Globo, 2011 "Estúdio i", na Globo News, como comentarista de literatura. "Nada tenho de meu", no Canal Brasil, November and December 2012.
References
External links J.P. Cuenca's website "The Death of J.P. Cuenca" website Articles - Folha de São Paulo Articles - O Globo