Alberto Mussa


Alberto Mussa is a Brazilian writer and translator.
WWW albertomussa.com

Life and career

Mussa was born in Rio de Janeiro, in a family of Indigenous and Lebanese descent. He first studied mathematics, then graduated in Languages at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
His writings fuse Western narrative tradition with mythological accounts from other cultures, such as Afro-Brazilian, pre-Islamic Arabian and indigenous Brazil. His works have been published in 17 countries and 15 languages, such as Argentina, Cuba, Portugal, Italy, France, England, Romania, Turkey, Spain and Egypt, and were awarded prizes such as the Premio Casa de Las Americas, the Prêmio Machado de Assis and the Prêmio APCA.
Together with historian Luiz Antonio Simas, he wrote Samba de enredo: história e arte, a study about the aesthetic evolution of samba-enredo.

Compêndio Mítico

Mussa is the author of Compêndio Mítico do Rio de Janeiro '' a series of five crime novels, each one set in a different century and aiming to portrait the history of Rio through reports of actual or fictional crimes.

Published works

Novels

1999 - O trono da rainha Jinga 2004 - O enigma de Qaf2006 - O movimento pendular2011 - O senhor do lado esquerdo
  • * English translation:The Mystery of Rio; transl. Alex Ladd. Europa Editions, 2013. 2014 - A Primeira História do Mundo 2017 - A hipótese humana
  • 2018 - ''A biblioteca elementar ''

Short stories

  • 1997 - Elegbara -
  • ''2016 - Os contos completos''

Organizer

  • 2013 - Altas Universal do Conto

Translation

2006 - Os poemas suspensos -Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry

Non-fiction

  • 2009 - Meu destino é ser onça
  • 2010 - ''Samba de enredo: história e arte