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Brazilian team in Frankfurt

Doris Dias

Begin to emerge the first evaluations of Brazilian participation in the largest book fair in the world. Contracts between national writers and Amazon and publishers buying copyrights twice compared to 2010 are reported, but the result goes beyond the book business and is the image of the country that emerges renewed.

In addition to breaking the record for the realization of parallel events with the presence of Brazilian art in several areas of the city, were the controversies,...

where and when

Machado de Assis magazine

Published by FBN (The National Library Foundation) since 2012

The selection of texts presented in two parts in the section leitura can give the impression of an "official" interest to disclose only the established names of our literature, which is not true.

The magazine Machado de Assis, a partnership between the Ministry of Culture, through the FBN, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Press Officer of the State of São Paulo and Itaú Cultural, aims to introduce to international publishers translated excerpts of works of authors that stand out...

sledgehammer

Lampião & Lancelote

Fernando Vilela (08/08/2011)


notes

video

Adriana Calcanhotto

(05-06-2012)


aim strap

on the stack

Time and the Wind

Erico Veríssimo

Time and the Wind is a trilogy written by Erico Verissimo. It is almost 3000 pages long.  The books are called: The Continent (1949), The Portrait (1951) and The Archipelago (1961/62).  It tells the saga of two families, the Terra-Cambará and the Amaral, spanning over two centuries.  Personal stories are weaved together with the most important events on the creation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.  The trilogy  took over 15 years to be written, and was...

 
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