Rubem Fonseca is considered one of Brazil's most influential
writers, and was awarded the Prémio Camõesconsidered the Nobel
Prize of Portuguese language literaturefor his body of work in
2003. That same year he was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize.
Clifford E. Landers has translated many of the great writers of
Brazil, including Jorge Amado, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Patricia Melo,
Osman Lins, and Moacyr Scliar among others. He received the Mario
Ferreira Award in 1999.
"The Taker is like a blast to the headhere is a dark, sinister Rio
de Janeiro, populated by street urchins, stalkers and serial
killers. What sort of urban hell have we stumbled into? ... Short,
fragmented vignettes that ring with the hard-boiled edge of crime
fiction."Anderson Tepper, Time Out New York
"Rubem Fonseca writes like the maniacal dreamchild of Cortazar and
Bukowski. Crazed, ribald, and relentless, the stories in The Taker
roam the streets of Rio like their disturbed characters,
overwhelmed by the strangeness of life."Stewart O'Nan
"Fonseca's work confirms, in the final analysis, that as a writer
he has gone where none have dared in Brazilian literature."World
Literature Today
"[Fonseca's narratives] take advantage of and reinvent existing
popular literary forms, such as the crime novel, but also the
political, social, existential and erotic novel."2003 Juan Rulfo
Prize Jury
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