Name Michel Laub Role Journalist | Books Diary of the fall | |
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Michel Laub (born 1973 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian lawyer, journalist and writer.
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- Provocacoes michel laub
- Sala de visita entrevista com michel laub
- Biography
- Awards and honors
- Published works
- References
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Biography
Laub graduated in Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1996. He also enrolled in the Journalism at PUC-RS, but did not complete he course. He worked as a lawyer in Porto Alegre, his hometown, but gave up career.
Laub wrote about business and politics for the magazines Carta Capital and República. In 1997, he moved to São Paulo, where he worked on Bravo! magazine, which became managing editor. In 1998 published his first book, the short story collection Não depois do que aconteceu.
He was the coordinator of publications and courses of Instituto Moreira Salles, later assuming the function of editor for their website.
His first novel Música Anterior was published in 2001. In 2005 he was awarded a scholarship from Fundação Vitae, which enabled him to write O Segundo Tempo. Diário da Queda (published in English as Diary of the Fall), written with support from a grant from Funarte, was his first work to address his Jewish origins, from the diaries of his grandfather, a survivor of the concentration camp of Auschwitz.