Mario Sabino was born in São Paulo in 1962. He is editor-in-chief of Veja, Brazil’s most influential weekly magazine. His second book, the collection of short stories, O Antinarciso (The Antinarcissist), won the Brazilian National Library’s Clarice Lispector Award. He has completed his second collection of short stories, A Boca da Verdade (The Mouth of Truth), and is currently working on his second novel, entitled O Vicio do Amor (Addicted to Love).