It seems to be contradictory, but I think it is not. But, on the other hand, this plurality has been followed by a conservative trend. It is true that it has become very diverse.

In your opinion, how is fiction writing changing with time?.

It gives you this sense of going to a very hot spot. But it feels even more surprising and unexpected to realize, while watching the news the same morning of my departure, that I’ll be in Islamabad at the same time the government has convened peace talks with the Taliban.

I was already very excited with the invitation - for Brazilians, it is a very exotic place, as Brazil must be for Pakistanis, too. I was invited to come to Pakistan by the Brazilian Embassy in Islamabad. Actually, I’m on the plane from Dubai right now.

What was your perception about Pakistan and how do you feel to be here?.

I like the idea of meeting people and discussing literature with people whose work I have not read.

How does it feel to be a part of Karachi Literature Festival?.

In an exclusive interview with Sunday Plus Mr Carvalho shared his views and opinions. He is the first Brazilian writer to take part in the Festival and the only Latin American representative in the event. Another play ( Dire ce qu'on ne pense pas dans des langues qu'on ne parle pas) will have its world première at the Théâtre National, in Brussels, in May 2014, before travelling to Romania and Avignon, in France.īernardo Carvalho was invited by the Brazilian Embassy to deliver a lecture at Kuch Khaas, in Islamabad, and participate in the Karachi Literature Festival. His 2006 play BR-3, written for the experimental Teatro da Vertigem, was staged on the Tietê River, in São Paulo, and on boats in the bay of Rio. He has contributed with his fiction to a variety of publications and anthologies in Brazil and abroad. Mongolia (2003) was awarded the prizes Jabuti and Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA). The latter was awarded the prizes Portugal Telecom and Machado de Assis.

Two of them were translated into English and published in the UK: the novella Fear of de Sade, by Canongate, and Nine Nights, by Heinemann.

In addition to Aberração, a collection of short stories published in 1993, he has written ten novels, most recently Reprodução (Reproduction, 2013), published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras, as all his previous titles. His books are translated into more than ten languages and published in many countries. Paulo” (one of Brazil’s major daily newspapers) in Paris and New York and the editor of the paper’s literary supplement “Folhetim”.

He has been the correspondent of “Folha de S. By Mishal Manzoor - Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, journalist and playwright, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.

Reprodução by Bernardo Carvalho