Felipe Franco Munhoz

Felipe Franco Munhoz (born 4 March 1990 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer and translator. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). Franco Munhoz presented performances and participated in debates in Sorbonne Université (France), The University of Chicago (USA) – supported by Instituto Guimarães Rosa –, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), City of Asylum’s LitFest (USA), Newark Public Library (USA), Macau Literary Festival (China), Flup (Brazil), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (India), among others; his fiction and poetry has appeared in magazines or newspapers such as Electric Literature’s The Commuter (USA), Words Without Borders (USA), Revue Catastrophes (France), Ponto Final (China), O Estado de S. Paulo (Brazil) and piauí (Brazil). He was selected to The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program – sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State –, received a Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship (Italy), a MacDowell Fellowship (USA), a Ucross Foundation Fellowship (USA), a Sangam House residency (India) – sponsored by Itamaraty: Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs –, a Festival Artes Vertentes residency (Brazil) and an Art Omi: Writers residency (USA); to Art Omi, Tom Stoppard wrote: “An experimentalist in the best sense, a true modernist. His published texts are not like any other texts I have seen: just to look at them tells you he is pushing boundaries.”

 Books 
In Portuguese:
Mentiras (São Paulo: Nós, 2016)
Identidades (São Paulo: Nós, 2018)
Lanternas ao nirvana (Record, 2022)
Dissoluções (Record, 2024)
A bússola adúltera (Ars et Vita, 2024)
In English:
Guide to a Fall (University of Iowa, 2025; co-written with Nada Alturki)

 Translation 
O Cavaleiro de Bronze e outros poemas, by Alexander Pushkin – translation (Kalinka, 2022)

 References 

Category:1990 births
Category:Living people
Category:Writers from São Paulo