Raphael Montes
| Raphael Montes de Carvalho | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 22, 1990 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Years active | 2010-present |
| Website | www.raphaelmontes.com.br |
Raphael Montes de Carvalho (born September 22, 1990), is a Brazilian crime novelist and lawyer. His best-known work is the 2014 novel Perfect Days.
Montes was born to an upper-middle-class family in Rio de Janeiro on 22 september 1990. He is an alumnus of the Colégio de São Bento, where he attended middle-school and high-school. He then studied law at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, graduating in 2012.
Montes began to write fiction at the age of 11. He usually wrote short stories until attempting his first full novel at the age of 17.
In 2010, Montes participated in a contest from Brazilian publishing house Saraiva, in which his novel Suicidas was awarded second place. Saraiva published the novel under their label Benvirá in 2012. The gruesome themes present in the story and Montes’ young age earned him widespread notoriety in Brazil. [1]
In 2014, Montes published his second novel, Dias Perfeitos(Perfect Days), displaying a more mature and focused style. As of February 2016, the novel has been released in 13 countries.[2]
Montes enjoys naming some of his most demeaning characters with acquaintances’ and friends’ names.