Dirty Hearts

Fernando Morais (b. 1946) is a Brazilian journalist, writer, and politician. He is the author of nine books, which include his biographies of Communist operative Olga Benário Prestes, media mogul Assis Chateaubriand, Brazilian Air Force Marshal Casimiro Montenegro Filho, and best-selling author Paulo Coelho. His own works have sold over two million copies in nineteen countries, and four of his books have been made into films. He received the Prêmio Esso three times and Prêmio Abril four times for his journalistic work. Corações Sujos (Dirty Hearts, 2000) was awarded the Jabuti Award, the Brazilian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, in the category of Best Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2001. Seth Jacobowitz is a Senior Research Associate at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. He is the author of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (2008) and Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (2015), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. His research has been funded by the Fulbright, Japan Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities. He previously taught at Yale and San Francisco State University. He is a frequent Visiting Researcher to the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of São Paulo and the Center for Nipo-Brazilian Studies in São Paulo.¿