Arnaldo Bloch is a Brazilian journalist, writer, translator, chronicler and screenwriter. He studied journalism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Between 2003 and 2020, he wrote a weekly chronicle column in Segundo Caderno, a cultural supplement for O Globo. He began his career at the Manchete group, where he was a reporter, writer and editor. Between 1991 and 1994, he was an international correspondent in Paris.