Milton Hatoum is a Brazilian writer, translator and professor. Hatoum is one of Brazil's most eminent contemporary writers. Born in Manaus of Lebanese descent, Hatoum taught literature at the Federal University of Amazonas and at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written four novels: Relato de um Certo Oriente, Dois Irm�os, Cinzas do Norte. The latter was the winner of a Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature and the three others awarded a Pr�mio Jabuti for best novel The final novel is �rf�os do Eldorado. Over 200,000 copies of his books have been sold in Brazil, and they have been translated in several languages including Italian, English, French, Spanish, Danish, Czech, and Arabic. Hatoum writes about destructured families in his works, with a political tendency. In two of his books, Dois Irm�os and Cinzas do Norte, Milton Hatoum made a subtle criticism of the Brazilian military regime of 1964?1985. 

August 19th, 1952 in Manaus (Age 72)