Edgard Telles Ribeiro is an award-winning Brazilian author of eight novels and three short-story collections. His latest novel, His Own Man, won the Brazilian PEN Prize for Best Novel (2011) and will be published this coming year in England, Australia, Spain, and Latin America, and in the US by Other Press in 2014 in Kim M. Hastings's translation.  A career diplomat, he is currently posted in New York.