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His literary writing has been influenced by his work as a journalist. His literary début came in 1984 with a self-published poetry collection, but Aquino first achieved recognition with his prose along with children’s books and short stories, he also writes novels and screenplays for film and television. He studied Journalism in Campinas before he moved to São Paulo at the age of 23, where he worked as a sub-editor, reporter and editor for various newspapers, including »Jornal da Tarde«. As a child he was already fascinated by cinema, comics and the oral traditions of his rural home, and wanted to become a writer in order to be able to tell his own stories.

Marçal Aquino was born in 1958 in Amparo, in south-eastern Brazil.