Robertson Frizero

Robertson Frizero is a Brazilian writer, translator, playwright and Creative Writing teacher. he was born in Rio de Janeiro and lives in Florianópolis. He has started his literary career in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, where he was a student at the PUCRS Creative Writing workshop, offered by Brazilian writer Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. He has also worke with Brazilian playwright and director Graça Nunes in her group of drama investigation Dran.

Frizero's first published book was "Por que o Elvis não latiu?" (Why Didn't Elvis Bark?), published by 8INVERSO in 2010. The book was awarded with national children's book award Prêmio Crescer and also finalist of Açorianos Literature Award. His debut novel, "Longe das Aldeias" (Far from the hamlets), published by Dublinense in 2015, was shortlisted for both São Paulo Literature Prize and Açorianos Prize for Literature; the book was chosen the best novel of the year at the AGES Award (Associação Gaúcha de Escritores); it was also chosen by the National Textbook Program (PNLD Literário 2018) and distributed by TAG Livros bookclub to its members; the book was shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize - it was translated and published in Arabic by Takween (Kuwait, distributed to all Arabic-speaking countries) and also had its translation rights purchased for the Persian language to be published in Iran.

Frizero has several self-published ebooks on the Kindle platform, including titles on drama, poetry, romance and flash fiction. It is also possible to find his titles published by Brazilian publishing houses such as Dublinense, Página Nova and BesouroBox.