Writer’s daughter also launches photobiography; In Life, Minas Gerais author won R $ 1.6 million in awards for his work
Editora Nova Fronteira announced the launch of a definitive edition with all the tales of Rubem Fonseca (1925-2020) to mark the writer’s birthday, which would turn 100 on Sunday (11.MAI.2025). The publication includes 2 unpublished tales of the author’s youth, found by daughter Bia Corrêa do Lago.
The Special Box (R $ 399.90) will be available on Amazon from June 9th. She is the first to gather in Brazil the full work of Fonseca, known for her direct narrative and urban portraits that exploit violence and social inequality. Lago also prepares a photobiography of his father for November, to be launched by the publisher Capivara.
Rubem Fonseca died in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 94 on April 15, 2020, as a result of a cardiac arrest at the Samaritan Hospital of Botafogo, southern Rio. During his life, he collected awards for his work.
He was awarded the Camões Award in 2003, considered the most important of Portuguese Language literature by the whole of his work. It also won the awards Juan Rulfo (2003), Ibero-American narrative Manuel Rojas (2012) and the Machado de Assis Award from the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2015. Added, the awards yielded R $ 1.6 million (in updated values).
All tales
According to the new border, the writer’s family actively participated in the gathering project of their tales on more than 2,000 pages, providing the 2 unpublished texts, as well as personal annotations of the writer. The unpublished tales are “Christmas” and “Arinda”, written by Fonseca 15 years before its 1st official release. The writer is popularly known as “The Master of the Tale.”
The new edition will include the 17 stories books already published by the author, including works such as “Happy New Year”, “The Collector” and “Lúcia McCartney”. A differential of the project is the inclusion of the revised version of the texts as noted by Fonseca itself, a material that had never been made available to the public.
The box is structured in 3 volumes, each with a preface signed by experts. Vera Lúcia Follain de Figueiredo, from UFF (Fluminense Federal University), analyzes the initial texts and the unpublished tales in “The Word as a Weapon”. Maria Antonieta Pereira, from UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), presents “in themselves”, a study on the production of the 1990s and 2000s. Miguel Sanches Neto, from UEPG (Ponta Grossa State University), contributes “Fonseca variations”, a reading about the author’s style in its last years.
Caixa that houses the volumes has a special text by Silviano Santiago, with critical analysis of the importance of Fonseca’s contiling to Brazilian literature.
Born on May 11, 1925 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Fonseca moved to Rio de Janeiro during childhood. He graduated in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Brazil, currently UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). He launched his first work in 1963, in the tales gathered in “The Prisoners.” In his career, he launched 18 other stories books, 13 novels and 1 book of chronicles.
