João Paulo Cuenca (born August 4, 1978), also known as J.P. Cuenca, is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker. He was selected for Bogotá39 in 2007 and for Best of Young Brazilian Writers by Granta in 2012.

Career

João Paulo Cuenca was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1978. He is the author of “Body present” (2003), “The Mastroianni Day” (2007), “The only happy ending for a love story is an accident” (2010) and “The day I found out I was dead” (2015). His novels have been translated into eight languages and have had their rights sold to eleven countries. He has been a weekly columnist for major Brazilian newspapers and magazines since 2003 and now writes for Folha de São Paulo, the biggest national newspaper in Brazil. An anthology of his articles, “The last dawn”, was published in 2012. In 2007, he was selected by the Hay Festival and the organisers of the Bogotá World Book Capital as one of the 39 highest profile Latin American writers under the age of 39. He was also selected for the first issue of Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in the Granta literary magazine in 2012. In recent years, he has written plays, films, and television scripts. "The Death of J.P. Cuenca" (2015), which was included in the first Venice Biennale College Production Lab, was his first feature film as a writer/director, premiered at the Rio and São Paulo International Film Festivals and had its European premiere at the main competition selection of the CPH:DOX in Denmark. Apart from writing novels, Cuenca worked as a journalist and columnist for various Brazilian newspapers and magazines, among them O Globo. An anthology of his chronicles and columns appeared in the volume A última madrugada (2012; tr: The last dawn). João Paulo Cuenca's writing has appeared in anthologies both inside and outside of Brazil.

Novels

Chronicles

Anthologies

Translated publications

Film

TV