One of the foundational stories of late 20th-century Brazilian literature, Happy Old Year ( Feliz Ano Velho ), the autobiography by Marcelo Rubens Paiva published in 1982, is getting a new screen adaptation by Netflix. Happy Old Year is a story that, starting from an intensely personal account, manages to reach the universal theme of what it means to be young. Pioneering in both form and content, Happy Old Year is an autobiographical novel centered around the accident that left the author quadriplegic at age 20. “ Happy Old Year has already been adapted into a play, a musical and an opera, and now, finally, this work, which is so vital to Brazilian culture, is coming to streaming,” said Paiva. “Adapting Happy Old Year for the screen is also a way of engaging with Marcelo’s journey and the courage he had to transform his personal experience into universal literature.