Edgard Telles Ribeiro

Edgard Telles Ribeiro is a Brazilian writer and diplomat. He was born in Valparaiso, Chile, into a diplomatic household and thus had a peripatetic childhood, mostly in Europe. He studied film at UCLA. He has written more than a dozen books of fiction, among which several have been translated into English:

As If By Magic
His Own Man
I Would Have Loved Him If I Had Not Killed Him
The Impostor

His most recent book Jogo de armar was nominated for the Premio Jabuti.
On 11 December 2024, he was elected to occupy the Chair number 27 at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, in succession to Antonio Cicero.