Max Mallmann Souto Pereira (October 18, 1968 – November 4, 2016) was a Brazilian Prêmio Açorianos-winning novelist, short story writer and screenwriter specialized in historical fiction, urban fantasy and magic realism.
[2] While growing up, he enjoyed reading stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Edgar Allan Poe and Monteiro Lobato, and comic books by Carl Barks, which motivated him to become a writer.
During his tenure with Globo, he wrote for television series and telenovelas such as Malhação, Coração de Estudante, Carga Pesada and A Grande Família, and also created the children's microseries Clara e o Chuveiro do Tempo, broadcast from December 18, 2005 to January 12, 2006.
[5] Around the same time he published two of his most critically acclaimed novels: Síndrome de Quimera in 2000 (which was shortlisted for a Prêmio Jabuti the following year) and Zigurate: Uma Fábula Babélica in 2003.
[7] Until his death he was working with his wife, fellow writer Adriana Lunardi, on the web television series Ilha de Ferro, which finally premiered on November 14, 2018.