My name is Paulo Otávio Barreiros Gravina - Brazilian, age 35. I have Economics degree and master's degree in Brazilian Literature at PUC-Rio University. I work as a freelancer writer, translator, reviser and editor of books and texts. I have also participated in social projects to encourage reading in Brazil. Currently, I have a blog including my translations of poetry and lyrics. I also work as the director-general of Centro Dom Vital's archives, in Rio de Janeiro. There I take care of the library and organize cultural events.

In terms of my literary production, my texts have already been published in literary magazines and in academic publications. In 2014, four of my texts have appeared in the exhibition Espace Urbain , held in Paris (France). My short story Cárceres ("Captives") was published in the horror anthology Das trevas ("From darkness"), released in 2017. On February 2017, I published my first book: Que Brazil é esse? ("Which Brazil is this?"), combining and analyzing a large variety of sentences about Brazil from foreigners. After that, along 2018, I published two Science Fiction short stories, "E no princípio era a ordem..." ("And in the beginning was order...") and "O tempo dentro da pele" ("Time inside the skin"), in volumes 6 and 7, respectively, of the prestigious anthology Mundos ("Worlds").

More recently, I published my edition and translation of Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka and I also published my edition and translation of the book Preface to Shakespeare, by Samuel Johnson, both illustrated editions including studies from important scholars.

My second book was recently published, the fantasy story A Fábula do Príncipe Narseu ("The Fable of Prince Narseu"), which consists of a world, built with a map and a language of its own, where prince Narseu is born, but he doesn't know that he is the son of the deceased king.
I hope you will enjoy my writing!