Diorama

Carol Bensimon was born in Porto Alegre in 1982. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel O Clube dos Jardineiros de Fuma a (2017, Companhia das Letras) which won the Jabuti Award, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil and was shortlisted for the Sao Paulo Prize of Literature. She also wrote the novels We All Loved Cowboys (2013, Compania das Letras) which was published in the United States, France and Spain. Her debut novel Sinuca embaixo d’agua was published in 2009 by Companhia das Letras after publishing her first work of fiction, the story collection Po de parede (Nao Editora, 2008). In 2012 Bensimon was selected by Granta as one of the Best Young Brazilian Novelists. She has a master’s degree in Creative Writing from PUCRS. She lives with her girlfriend in Mendocino, California. Diorama is her fourth novel.