Raphael Montes

Raphael Montes de Carvalho
Born	(1990-09-22) September 22, 1990 (age 34) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Years active	2009-present
Website	www.raphaelmontes.com.br

Raphael Montes de Carvalho (born September 22, 1990) is a Brazilian crime novelist and lawyer. His best-known work is the 2014 novel Perfect Days.

Montes was born in Rio de Janeiro on 22 September 1990. He studied at Colégio de São Bento, where he attended middle-school and high-school. He then studied law at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, graduating in 2012.

He debuted in literature in 2009, publishing in the police anthology Assassinos S / A: Brazilian police tales (Editora Multifoco), by the editor Frodo Oliveira and organizer Jana Lauxen. His first tale to win the pages of a book was "The Teacher" in volume 1 of the anthology. He also published in the anthology Beco do Crime (Frodo Oliveira and André Esteves) also in 2009, by the same Editora Multifoco.

In 2010, Montes participated in a contest from Brazilian publishing house Benvirá/Saraiva, in which his novel Suicidas was awarded second place. Saraiva published the novel under their label Benvirá in 2012. The gruesome themes present in the story and Montes’ young age earned him widespread notoriety in Brazil.^[1]

In 2014, Montes published his second novel, Dias Perfeitos (Perfect Days), and as of February 2016, the novel has been released in 14 countries.^[2] Both, first and second books, had the rights sold to film adaptations.

The Village, his third book, is a fix-up horror novel throughout comics draws short stories of macabre characters are told.

The author's fourth book, Jantar Secreto (Secret Dinner), has divided opinions in 2016 when it was discovered that cannibalism was the main theme but both sides confirmed that it was the best book written by Montes.

Bibliography

Title	Year	Type	Notes
Suicidas	2012	Novel	Won the Benvirá Awards and the Machado de Assis Awards
Dias Perfeitos (Perfect Days)	2014	Novel
O Vilarejo	2015	Short story collection
Jantar Secreto	2016	Novel
Uma Mulher no Escuro	2019	Novel

References

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1. "Folha de S.Paulo - Ilustrada - Prodígio do crime - 29/03/2014".
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-09-17. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
3. "Blogger".
4. "Autor da Semana: "Raphael Montes", O Principe dos Horrores". 27 June 2015.

External links

• Official website