Emilio Fraia

{{Short description|Brazilian writer, editor and journalist}}

Emilio Fraia (born 1982 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer, editor and journalist.

He worked as editor-in-chief and literature editor for Trip magazine, as a visual arts editor for Bravo! Magazine, and collaborated with Piauí magazine. He edited the literary magazine Givago, which published new authors between 1999 and 2005.{{Cite web |url=http://www.flip.org.br/edicoes_anteriores.php?programacao=autores&nome=Emilio%20Fraia&ano=2008 |title=:: Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty :: |access-date=2019-12-11 |archive-date=2015-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002210341/http://www.flip.org.br/edicoes_anteriores.php?programacao=autores&nome=Emilio%20Fraia&ano=2008 |url-status=dead }} Between 2009 and 2013 he was a literature editor for publisher Cosac Naify. As of 2019 he works for Companhia das Letras.

In 2008, together with Vanessa Barbara, he wrote his first novel O Verão do Chibo, finalist of that year's São Paulo Literature Prize.

In 2012, Fraia was one of the authors selected for the collection The Best Young Brazilian Writers of the British magazine Granta.{{Cite web|url=https://granta.com/contributor/emilio-fraia/|title=Emilio Fraia|website=Granta Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-11}} In 2013 he wrote the graphic novel Campo em Branco, illustrated by DW Ribatski. In 2018 he published Sevastopol, a short story collection; one of the short stories was published in the December 9, 2019 issue of The New Yorker.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/sevastopol|title=Sevastopol|last=|first=|date=4 December 2019|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-11}}