Luiz Ruffato

Luiz Fernando Ruffato de Souza (born February 1961 in Cataguases) is a contemporary Brazilian writer. An alumnus of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Ruffato worked as a journalist in São Paulo and published several fiction books, including ''História dos Remorsos e Rancores'' (1998) and ''Eles eram muitos cavalos'' (''They were many horses'') (2001). The latter garnered the APCA literary prize.

Ruffato is one of the founders of the Church of the Book as Transformation (Igreja do Livro Transformador). Provided by Wikipedia