Raphael Draccon

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Nationality Brazilian Name Raphael Draccon		Role Writer

Full Name Raphael Albuquerque Occupation Writer and screenwriter Known for Dragons of Ether trilogy, Silver Cords – Rebuilding Sandman, Spirits of Ice and Cemeteries of Dragons.

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Raphael Draccon (born Raphael Albuquerque in June 15, 1981) is a Brazilian fantasy and ficction writer and screenwriter awarded by the American Screenwriters Association. He is considered one of the most influential and bestselling ficction writers of the current literary market in Brazil reaching number one book at Amazon best-seller list and Submarino sites. Aside from having already signed one of the largest publishers in the country, Draccon was an editor and had his own imprint at Leya called Fantasy – Casa da Palavra from 2013 to 2015.

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He wrote the bestselling High fantasy trilogy Dragons of Ether (in Portuguese, Dragões de Éter), originally published on the Lusophone markets (Brazil and Portugal) between 2009 and 2013, in which he retells fairy tales in a more "pop" version. He published the dark fantasy book Espíritos de Gelo (Spirits of Ice) in Latin America and Iberia (in Portugal the work was published by Gailivro – Dom Quixote publisher) and launched the Fios de Prata – Reconstruindo Sandman ("Silver Cords – Rebuilding Sandman") which appeared in a major soap opera.

Raphael Draccon Fios De Sonhos39 e a construo fantstica de Raphael

Draccon was part of the original editing team of the George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire bestseller series by Leya publisher in Brazil. In 2013 got the 4th place in the best-seller list of Mexico (Random House Mondadori) and the bestseller Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho quoted his name in Frankfurt Book Fair, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He signed a trilogy with Rocco where he already published Cemitérios de Dragões (Cemeteries of Dragons) reaching the best-seller list and was the second best-seller book of Rocco Publishers in the São Paulo City Book Fair. He sold a nerdy comedy script for Dama films, owned by Carol Kotscho that is their next movie. After that got signed with the Latin American television network sector giant Rede Globo and was invited to write their next TV Series, Supermax.