Marco Guimarães — Literary Dossier.
Marco Guimarães
Literary and Dramatic Dossier
Author
Marco Guimarães · Paris
Marco Guimarães is a European citizen, born in Rio de Janeiro and living in Paris. He is a novelist, playwright and chronicler whose work moves between memory, political unease, irony, literary mystery, metaphysical suspense and the fantastic.
He is the author of novels published in Angola, Brazil, Croatia, France and Italy. A Stranger with My Name, originally Meu pseudônimo e eu, was a finalist for the Portugal Telecom Prize, now the Oceanos Prize.
Before devoting himself fully to literature, playwriting and journalism, Marco Guimarães earned a doctorate and completed postdoctoral research in Medical Sciences. He taught at a Brazilian federal university and supervised theses at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires. For several years, he was a columnist for Diário do Comércio, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and he currently contributes chronicles to LusoJornal and OPTION, both published in France. He is also a co-founder of the European Union of Portuguese-Language Writers and has served as its vice-president since its creation. Within the association, he founded the literary review Entre Margens, of which he is editorial director and editor-in-chief.
Published Books
Selected works available upon request to literary agents and publishers. Editorial information, synopses and manuscript files may be supplied for international evaluation and representation.
The Phantoms of a Writer in Paris
Set mainly in Paris, this metafictional novel follows a retired pilot who begins seeing dead writers. Fiction, memory, desire and crime gradually exchange places.
A Stranger with My Name
A successful writer discovers that an impostor will sign his latest book in Paris. While waiting in line for his own signature, he confronts identity, authorship and the fantastic.
The Queue
Written with the Angolan writer Manuel Rui, the novel turns the queue into a sharp reflection on language, bureaucracy, scarcity, privilege and survival in Brazil and Angola.
The Strange Mirror of the Latin Quarter
A retired journalist finds an old mirror that returns three reflections. The object becomes an intimate tribunal of guilt, memory and fractured identity.
Ahmed's Choice
Saved from childhood hunger by a mysterious figure, Ahmed crosses Somalia, London, Rio and Paris before facing, at eighty, the meaning of a life that may have been borrowed.
The Raven
The first book of a trilogy set between Paris and a parallel dimension, where disappearances, crime and a raven blur the boundary between life and death.
The Portal
Captain Maurice Maurel survives a passage through another Paris and must rebuild his life while the portal remains a disturbing possibility.
The Veil
The final movement of the trilogy deepens the mystery of the portal, the raven and the woman in the black veil, joining crime, time and mortality.
The Present Time of Things Past
Samael Cruz arrives in Paris for postdoctoral research and begins witnessing impossible scenes in which the past invades the present.
Dystopia Chronicles
A collection of political and philosophical chronicles shaped by indignation, irony and resistance to denialism, cruelty and the erosion of democracy.
The Adventures of Margarida
Written with Madalena Lorscheid, this children’s book celebrates curiosity, tenderness, friendship and the transforming freedom of imagination.
The Sister of Sleep
A published work by Marco Guimarães.
Dramaturgy
The complete plays, presentation dossiers and translation materials are available to theatre producers, stage directors, theatrical agents, programmers and companies.
The Cemetery of the Future
In a cemetery without names, graves bear only the functions of those linked to power, war and the administration of death. The play asks the living to face responsibility for suffering turned into statistics.
The Candle Beside the Body
A writer in Paris sees a motionless man beside a candle and hesitates between going downstairs and turning the scene into literature. The conflict is between seeing, writing and acting.
Samael’s Ship
A former ruler commands a ship carrying those declared inconvenient by authoritarian power. After the sinking, a mirror becomes his tribunal and memory his sentence.
The Boy Who Came from the Radio
An ageing writer changes Bach for an old radio station and a mysterious boy enters the room carrying an empty suitcase. The encounter questions love, possession and what one is willing to give without return.
Novel Presented to Literary Agents
The Phantoms of a Writer in Paris
Set mainly in Paris, this metafictional novel follows a retired pilot who begins seeing dead writers. Fiction, memory, desire and crime gradually exchange places.
Editorial Reviews
Short excerpts from published reviews of the author’s works.
“The stories invented by this Brazilian author are set largely in the Latin Quarter, around people in transit who are completely fascinated by the topography of Paris and live through plots that might be described as lying between the strange and the fantastic, recalling some of the finest pages of Borges or Cortázar.”
“A book that fictionalizes fictionality itself.”
“Your metanovel is an excellent and fascinating presentation of reality and fiction. In both form and content, it is surrealism and, when one thinks of the works of Guimarães Rosa, magical realism. Our thanks to the fictional and real author of a magnificent work.”
“Here too, beyond the intertextuality created at the heart of the same author’s writing, we are faced with an intelligent laboratory exercise in writing.”
“To read Ghosts of a Writer in Paris is to enter a story and a reflection; it is also to step into a marvellous writers’ workshop, with Proust and others as teachers, in a permanent dialogue between author and reader.”
“As I told you yesterday at the Embassy, I found your book very interesting and very enjoyable to read. You draw the reader into a story that is both psychological and playful, keeping them in suspense until the very end, which is very skilful. It is also a great pleasure to discover certain areas of Paris through the eyes of a Brazilian who loves the city. I congratulate you and hope that you will find an interested publisher. Should that publisher not have a translator, I would be delighted to translate it.”
Interviews and Conferences
Interview on Italian television about the author’s literary work.
Feature interview in a Croatian review about literature, South America and political change.
Conference at the Paris Book Fair on crime fiction and the fantastic novel in Brazil.
Interview in O Globo, Rio de Janeiro.
Reading and discussion at German universities and at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Conferences at Sorbonne Paris IV, the Porto Alegre Book Fair and the UCCLA meeting in Luanda.
Essays
This section gathers essays, chronicles and critical texts on literature, memory, politics, displacement, identity and the contemporary world.
Literary Rights and Availability
Translation and international publishing rights are available for evaluation. The Phantoms of a Writer in Paris and A Stranger with My Name are currently prioritized for representation. Complete dossiers, synopses and manuscripts may be supplied upon request.
Contact
Marco Guimarães
Author, playwright and literary editor
E-mail: mg5eme@gmail.com
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