Marina Colasanti (born September 26, 1937 in Asmara, old Italian colony in Eritrea) is an Italian writer, translator and journalist. She lived in Libya during her infancy, and then she moved to Italy, where she lived for eleven years. Her family moved to Brazil in 1948 due to the difficult conditions in Europe after World War II.
In Brazil, she studied fine arts and worked as a journalist and a translator of Italian literature. She has published many books, including works of poetry, collections of short stories and children's literature. She is married to the writer Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna.
Prizes
Breve História de um Pequeno Amor, 2014, Prêmio Jabuti: Fiction Book of the Year
Passageira em trânsito, 2010, Prêmio Jabuti: Poetry
Uma idéia toda azul, 1978, O Melhor para o Jovem, from the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil.
Works
Breve História de um Pequeno Amor (2014)
Hora de alimentar serpentes (2013)
Passageira em trânsito (2010)
Minha Ilha Maravilha (2007) – Ed. Ática
Acontece na cidade (2005) – Ed. Ática
Fino sangue (2005)
O homem que não parava de crescer (2005)
23 histórias de um viajante (2005)
Uma estrada junto ao rio (2005)
A morada do ser (1978, 2004)
Fragatas para terras distantes (2004)
A moça tecelã (2004)
Aventuras de pinóquio – histórias de uma marionete (2002)
A casa das palavras (2002) – Ed. Ática
Penélope manda lembranças (2001) – Ed. Ática
A amizade abana o rabo (2001)
Esse amor de todos nós (2000)
Ana Z., aonde vai você? (1999) – Ed. Ática
Gargantas abertas (1998)
O leopardo é um animal delicado (1998)
Histórias de amor (série "Para gostar de ler" vol. 22) (1997) – Ed. Ática
Arnaldo Antunes is a Brazilian musician, writer, and composer. He was a member of the rock band Titãs, which he co-founded in 1982 and left ten years later. After 1992, he embarked on a solo career. He has published poetry and had his first book published in 1983. He has worked with Marisa Monte, Tribalistas, and Carlinhos Brown.
Paulo José Gómez de Souza was a Brazilian actor.
Joffre Soares was a Brazilian film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1963 and 1996.
O Grupo THE FEVERS foi formado nos anos 60 no Rio de Janeiro, no bairro da Piedade, tendo seu início com 5 componentes, o tecladista Cleudir Borges, o baterista Lécio do Nascimento, o guitarrista Pedrinho da Luz, o baixista Liebert Ferreira e o vocalista Almir Bezerra. Entrando posteriormente mais 3 componentes: Miguel Plopschi, Luiz Claudio e Augusto Cesar. O grupo começou a ter maior repercução a partir dos anos 70 onde fizeram muito sucesso com as músicas gravadas pela banda.
João Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo, The Five Seasons of Love ; The Book of Emotions and Cidade Livre. His 2015 novel Enigmas da Primavera was published in English in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press and won the Jabuti Award for Best Brazilian Book in translation. His seventh novel was published in November 2017 in Brazil: Entre facas, algodão. His most recent novel, Homem de Papel, was published in 2022. He has also authored books of philosophical and literary essays. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), at the University of Brasília (UnB), the Instituto Rio Branco, Berkeley, Stanford and The University of Chicago. In 2017, he was elected as one of the 40 members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
John Herbert was a Brazilian actor, director and producer.
Ruy Castro is a Brazilian author and journalist. In 1996 he was a co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti. He is known for his writings concerning Bossa nova and for his biographies, profiling figures such as Garrincha, Nelson Rodrigues and Carmen Miranda.
Júlia Valentina da Silveira Lopes de Almeida was one of the first Brazilian women to earn acclaim and social acceptance as a writer. In a career that spanned five decades, she wrote in a variety of literary genres; however, it is her fiction, written under the influence of the naturalists Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, that has captured the attention of recent critics. Her notable novels include Memórias de Marta, the first Brazilian novel to take place in an urban tenement, A Família Medeiros, and A Falência. Immensely influential and appreciated by peers like Aluísio Azevedo, João do Rio and João Luso, she is remembered as an early advocate of modernized gender roles and increased women's rights, as a precursor to later women writers like Clarice Lispector, and for her support of abolition. She was married to the poet Filinto de Almeida.
Cleyde Yáconis was a Brazilian actress.
Alexandre Borges Corrêa is a Brazilian actor. He is known for his work in Brazilian telenovelas.
Daniel Munduruku is a Brazilian writer and educator. He is member of the Munduruku indigenous people. His children's books deal about traditional indigenous life and tales and have been awarded several prizes. Munduruku holds three undergraduate degrees in philosophy, History and Psychology. He has a master's degree in Social Anthropology and a doctorate in education by the University of São Paulo.
Ruth Machado Lousada Rocha, most known as Ruth Rocha is a Brazilian writer of children's books. Together with Lygia Bojunga, Ana Maria Machado and Eva Furnari she is one of the leading exponents of the new wave of Brazilian children's literature. Rocha graduated in Political Sociology at the University of São Paulo and postgraduated in Educational Orientation in the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She became a member of the Paulista Academy of Arts since October 25, 2007, occupying the chair 38.
Luísa Costa Gomes is a Portuguese chronicler, librettist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
Rose Marie Muraro was a Brazilian sociologist, writer, intellectual and feminist. Born nearly blind, she was the author of over 40 books and also served as publisher and director of Vozes.
Pedro Bandeira de Luna Filho is a Brazilian award-winning and best-selling children's novelist and poet, best known as the author of the Os Karas hexalogy of mystery novels which comprise A Droga da Obediência (1984), Pântano de Sangue (1987), Anjo da Morte (1988), A Droga do Amor (1994), Droga de Americana! (2001) and A Droga da Amizade (2014).
Elvira Vigna was a Brazilian writer, illustrator and journalist.
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist. She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor at Princeton University.
José Fernandes de Oliveira, SCJ, known as Padre Zezinho, is a Dehonian priest, writer and Brazilian musician.
Maria Isabel Stilwell is a Portuguese journalist and writer. Already known in Portugal for her journalism, broadcasting, historical novels, children's books and short stories, she expanded outside of Portugal as the author of Philippa of Lancaster – English Princess, Queen of Portugal, which was first published in translation in 2015. Since then, two more of her historical novels have been translated into English.
LHT HIGGS Produções Audiovisuais LTDA, better known by its trade name Brasil Paralelo, is a Brazilian company founded in 2016, in Porto Alegre, that produces historically revisionist and conservative documentaries about politics, history and current events. The videos are published on YouTube and have been shown since December 9, 2019 on TV Escola, a state television channel linked to the Ministry of Education and, since April 6, 2021, on the Panflix platform of the Jovem Pan group.
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