Author of Brazil on the Rise
Larry Rohter has been the go-to journalist on Brazil for over a decade. He lived in today’s newest rising superpower for the last fourteen years, first as a Newsweek correspondent and later as The New York Times bureau chief for the Rio de Janeiro office. Known for his sharp reporting and spats with current President Lula de Silva, one review of his Portuguese language book on Brazil, published earlier this year, said "Rohter knows Brazil better than many Brazilians." He is widely considered the top expert on Brazil. Currently he is the culture reporter for The New York Times. He lives in Hoboken, NJ. Praise for Larry Rohter
"No one is better equipped than Larry Rohter to weigh and measure Brazil's remarkable transformation of recent years."
—Alan Riding, author of Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans.
"Larry Rohter knows the country inside out, loves it, and yet is able to bring an objective lens to help us understand where Brazil is coming from, the opportunities and challenges that it faces today, and its manifest destiny."
—Anil K. Gupta, co-author of Getting China and India Right
"His grasp and deep knowledge of my country gives you a sense of its dynamic and vibrant culture as well as the rapid ascent of its economy and its transformation from dictatorship to democracy."
—Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist