Writer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, he published his first novel, “Feliz Ano Velho”, in 1982. The novel was translated into several languages and reached the mark of best-selling Brazilian novel of the 1980s. He was awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the script of Malu de Bicicleta (2010). In 2015, with his novel “Ainda Estou Aqui", he won the Jabuti Award and was nominated for the Governador do Estado and Oceanos awards, for which he is currently competing with “O Homem Ridículo”. In 2016 he won the same award for the children's book “O Menino e o Foguete”.