Gabriel Abreu is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 and studied Literature, Art and Contemporary Thought at PUC-Rio and at the Parque Lage Visual Arts School. He is currently pursuing a Master of Performing Arts at UFRJ.
He is one of the artistic directors of Brecha, a structure for creation and continuous research in the arts that brings together artists and non-artists from different areas around methodological research, creative processes and formative experiences. Through Brecha, he worked in the webseries Língua (2020) as producer, director, screenwriter and actor, and in the film-play Já Não Somos Doces (2021) as producer and actor.
In 2022, he was one of the selected writers for the PUCRS Creative Writing Workshop taught by Luis Antonio de Assis Brasil (the longest running of its kind in Brazil), taking part in the publication of the short stories anthology Ninguém nunca sabe. In the same year, he was one of the artists invited to the first edition of the Interdisciplinary Artistic Residency and Festival ONSITE, organized by the Po:era collective at the Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge in Berlin.
He was part of the exhibition Formação e Deformação (2018) at EAV Parque Lage, where he showed the work Prefiro Rir. That turned into his first novel, Sad isn’t quite the word (Triste não é ao certo a palavra), published by Companhia das Letras in 2023. The book was listed as one of the literary highlights of 2023 by Jornal O Globo and as one of the best books of the year by Quatro Cinco Um, the country’s leading literary magazine. The novel also won the IESS Award for debut novels by authors in Latin America by the Italo-Latin American International Organization (IILA) and will be translated and published by Edizioni SUR in Italy in 2025.
In April 2024, he took part in the Literary Residency Program in Óbidos (Portugal), where he also participated in the literary festival Latitudes – Literatura e Viajantes. That same year, he also wrote one of the afterwords for the new edition of Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka, published by Antofágica.
Email. gambreu@gmail.com
Instagram. @gambreu
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