Mario Alberto Campos de Morais Prata (Uberaba, February 11, 1946) is a Brazilian writer, playwright, chronicler and journalist. He won recognition as a novelist, author of soap operas and plays, his greatest hits being the novel Stupid Cupid (1976), the plays Fábrica de Chocolate (1979) and Besame Mucho (1982) and the books Schifaizfavoire - Dictionary of Portuguese (1994), Diary of a Slim (1997), My Women and My Men (1998) and Purgatory (2007).