Fernanda Torres
Fernanda Torres was born in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro. The daughter of actors, she was raised backstage. Fernanda has built a solid career as an actress and dedicated herself equally to film, theater, and TV since she was 13 years old, and has received many awards, including Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Over the last twenty years, she has written and collaborated on film scripts and adaptations for theater. She began to write regularly for newspapers and magazines in 2007 and is now a columnist for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and the magazine Veja-Rio and contributes to the magazine Piauí. Her debut novel, The End, has sold more than 200,000 copies in Brazil.
Books
By Fernanda Torres
Translated from the Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker
2020 Firecracker Award Finalist for Fiction
From Fernanda Torres, the celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of The End, comes a riotous tragicomedy of a famed actor’s path from national sex symbol to cult icon to raving madman after a disastrous performance as King Lear.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061126
Publication date: Jul 23, 2019
Three women writers in translation, three fearless (Sexographies), riotous (The End), and Björk-endorsed (Land of Love and Ruins) takes on sex, gender, and having a body.
By Fernanda Torres
Translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin
Winner of the Jabuti Prize for Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad
In this deadly-funny debut novel by renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, five macho friends in Rio’s Copacabana reflect on their hedonistic glory days—now supplanted by the indignities of aging—in what turn out to be their final moments.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061218
Publication date: Jul 11, 2017