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Paulo Scott was born in 1966 in Porto Alegre; in southern Brazil. At university; he was an active member of the student political movement and was also involved in Brazil’s re-democratisation process. For ten years he taught law at university in Porto Alegre; he has now published five books of fiction and four of poetry; and is also a translator from English. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2008 to focus on writing full-time.