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André Silva (born January 10, 1975), better known by his pen name André Vianco, is a Brazilian best-selling novelist, screenwriter, and film and television director. Specialized in urban fantasy and horror, supernatural and vampire fiction, he rose to fame in 1999 with the novel Os Sete. As of 2016, his books have sold over a million copies, and in 2018 he was named, alongside Max Mallmann, Raphael Draccon and Eduardo Spohr, one of the leading Brazilian fantasy writers of the 21st century.

André Silva was born in São Paulo on January 10, 1975, but raised in the neighboring town of Osasco. His pen name, "Vianco", was adopted by him as an homage to the street in which he grew up during his childhood, the Dona Primitiva Vianco Street. Vianco was always into horror films and literature, and cites Stephen King, Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, Henry James, Victor Hugo and old Tales from the Crypt comics as some of his favorite readings and major influences. He began his career working as redactor for radio station Jovem Pan's journalism department, where he stayed for two years, and also had a part-time job at a credit card company. He self-published his debut novel, O Senhor da Chuva, in 1998.