Itamar Vieira Junior

Vieira Junior was born in Salvador, in 1979. As a teenager, he lived in the state of Pernambuco, and later in the city of São Luís. He started studying geography at the undergraduate course at the Federal University of Bahia, being the first recipient of the Milton Santos Scholarship, dedicated to low-income black youth. He graduated in Geography and completed a master's degree. He holds a doctorate in Ethnic and African Studies from the Federal University of Bahia with a study on the formation of quilombola communities in the interior of the Brazilian Northeast. Itamar is also a public servant at INCRA, the state agency responsible for conducting land reform in Brazil. == Works ==

• Dias (short stories; 2012) • A oração do carrasco (short stories; 2017) • Torto Arado (novel; 2018) • English translation: Crooked Plow; Verso Books, 2023. • Doramar ou a Odisseia (short stories; 2021) • Salvar o Fogo (novel; 2023) • Coração sem Medo (novel; 2025) == References ==