Mário Prata

Mario Alberto Campos de Morais Prata (Uberaba, February 11, 1946) is a Brazilian writer, playwright, chronicler and journalist. I've won recognition as a novelist, author of soap operas and plays, his greatest hits being the novel Stupid Cupid (1976), the plays Chocolate Factory (1979) and Besame mucho (1982) and the books Schifaizfavoire - Dictionary of Portuguese (1994), Diary of a Slim (1997), My Women and My Men (1998) and Purgatory (2007).

Mario Prata is a miner from Uberaba, but I was raised in the city of Lins from Sao Paulo. At the age of fourteen, I was already writing "in an old Remington in my father's laboratory ... horrible chronicles, often preaching freedom and doubting the existence of God." At this age I began to write in A Gazeta de Lins, this time signing to the social column under the pseudonym Franco Abbiazzi. I was already producing reports and articles.