Paulo Valadares has an MA in Social History (USP, São Paulo) but has no relationship to any university or other cultural institution (this is not a personal choice). He wrote and published four books, one of which received a prize from the society of public libraries for best reference book.
Romy Fink (1912-1972) was a lawyer, an art dealer and an English mystic who lived in Brazil. Flusser understood Fink’s life as expressing the moral and existential values of Judaism.