About the author

For ten years, André Laurentino (b. 1972, Olinda, Brazil), was an award-winning art director at an advertising agency. In 2003, at the hight of his career, he quit his job to dedicate himself to the written word. Since then he has worked as a scriptwriter for TV, copywriter and columnist for the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo. He participated in FLIP’s literary workshop in 2004, during which he worked on his critically well received first novel, A Paixão de Amâncio Amaro (2005). He was a speaker at FLIP in 2006. He is the executive creative director at TBWA\London.