Felipe Franco Munhoz was born in São Paulo in 1990. He graduated in Social Communication from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), and is the author of the books Mentiras (2016), which received a Funarte Literary Creation Grant, Identidades (2018), and Lanternas ao nirvana (Record, 2022). Regarding Identidades, Caetano Veloso said: “I've never found anything like it among the things young people give me to look at. Even the stage directions are poetry. Identidades has a unique place in contemporary Brazilian literature.” He translated, from Russian, Aleksandr Pushkin's selection of poems, *The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems* (2022), which received an honorable mention from Abralic. He was awarded the Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship (Italy) and the residencies Sangam House (India), supported by the Itamaraty (Itamaraty), Festival Artes Vertentes (Tiradentes, Minas Gerais), and Art Omi: Writers (USA). Regarding Art Omi, Tom Stoppard wrote: "An experimentalist in the best sense, a true modernist. His published writings are unlike any I've ever seen: just by looking at them, we know that Franco Munhoz is expanding boundaries."
