Sergio Leo

Sergio Leo de Almeida Pereira (born January 25, 1963), known as Sergio Leo, is a Brazilian writer, journalist and blogger.

Career Sergio Leo graduated in journalism from the School of Communication at UFRJ, in 1983 . That same year, he started working as an intern at the newspaper "O Globo". Prior to that, he was a freelancer for the magazines "Manchete" and "Ciência Hoje".

In 1985, he moved to Brasília where he worked until 1989 as a reporter at the Brasília branch office of the "Jornal do Brasil", and thereafter between 1995 and 1996. In 2014, he published the non-fiction book Ascensão e Queda do Império X, about the Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista.

Literature In 2008, he won the SESC Award for Literature with his book of short stories Mentiras do Rio