Luiz Schwar­cz was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1956. He began his career as an edi­tor at Brasiliense and lat­er found­ed Com­pan­hia das Letras, in 1986. In 2017, he received the Lon­don Book Fair Life­time Achieve­ment Award. He is the author of the children’s books Min­ha vida de goleiro (1999) and Em bus­ca do The­souro da Juven­tude (2003), and the short sto­ry col­lec­tions Dis­cur­so sobre o capim (2005) and Lin­guagem de sinais (2010).