The event will take place from 29 June to 7 July at Praça Charles Miller, in Pacaembu
The Book Fair, a free literary festival held in the capital of São Paulo since 2022, published the first list of invited authors this Tuesday (19th). Located in Praça Charles Miller, in front of the Pacaembu Stadium, this year’s edition will last longer, with 9 days of programming, from 29 June to 7 July.
Guest authors include novelist and playwright Maria Adelaide Amaral; the singer, composer and writer Martinho da Vila; psychiatrist and author of Empty glass AND Small possibilities, Natalia Timerman; chef and cookbook author Rita Lobo; documentary director João Moreira Salles; and the journalist of Piaui magazine and coordinator of podcasts The Earth is roundBernardo Esteves.
The general director of the Book Fair, Paulo Werneck, emphasizes that “the program sought to invite authors who have become popular among readers and promote debates relevant to Brazil and the world.” Organized by Associação Quatro Cinco Um e Maré Produções, the fair aims to bring together some of the highlights of the Brazilian and international literary scene for discussion.
One of this year’s highlights, Natalia Timerman is a psychiatrist and worked at the Hospital Center of the São Paulo Penitentiary System from 2012 to 2020, where she collected the experiences of employees and inmates to create her debut book, in 2017, Desterros: Stories from the Prison Hospital. After the love story Empty glassalso launched The small possibilitieswith autobiographical inspiration upon his father’s death.
“I really liked the book. In addition to being a cultural lesson on Jewish rituals involving death, the author’s sensitivity touched me, especially in the scene of the sister who returns to Brazil on the verge of her father’s death. Just remembering it makes me it makes you emotional again,” reported entrepreneur Ligia Secco.
Psychologist Paula Tavares highlighted the ease of identifying with Natalia Timerman’s characters. “In Empty glass, talks about the theme of abandonment. It describes the character’s feelings very well, it makes you experience them, feel what that character feels. Although she is a well-rounded and successful woman, she also feels vulnerable when she is abandoned by her lover. She describes these feelings very clearly, it’s very engaging writing.”
Paula Tavares is interested in the writings of another guest of the fair, the psychoanalyst Vera Iaconelli, author of Anti-maternalist manifesto, Maternity malaise AND Raising children in the 21st century.
“Brings a psychoanalytic view of parenting into the modern world. In Anti-maternalist manifesto, the central point of the book is wonderful because it goes against this view that only the mother knows how to take care of the child, only the mother knows what the child feels and that the child always wants the mother. She focuses on the role of the primary caregiver – who can be a father, a mother, a grandmother, a grandfather – and this, for our society, is still a shock,” she emphasized.
Guests also include renowned historians Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, professor emeritus of the Sorbonne and specialist in slavery and South Atlantic history, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., professor at Harvard and specialist in African and African-American cultures. Two other non-fiction authors, guests of the event, are the linguist Marcos Bagno and the mathematician Marcelo Viana.
From national literature, Stênio Gardel will be present at the event, the first Brazilian to win the National Book Award, the most important literary prize in the United States. In the translated literature category, the winning title was his debut novel The word left (2021). In international contemporary literature, the Argentine writers Camila Sosa Villada, Camila Fabbri and Claudia Piñeiro; Novelist Jamaica Kincaid and novelist and historian Jabari Asim are part of the event’s program.
Also highlighted at the fair was endocrinologist Carlos Monteiro, one of the creators of Food guide for the Brazilian population. The chef Nana Favorito underlined the lightness with which the guide proposes the nutritional perspective, its importance for fighting food poverty and she believes that exchange spaces like these, during the fair, are fundamental for learning.
“The guide is very didactic. I think it’s beautiful how it addresses the problem, how it explains it, what types of food they are, how there are regional food problems, how it shows that Brazilians have a healthy eating habit , but that this has been lost due to the high consumption of ultra-processed foods”, he assessed.
In 2019, Monteiro wrote a brief on ultraprocessed foods for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Nana Favorito used the 0-2 year version of the guide a lot, given her son’s introduction to food. “It’s a guide who taught me—and reminded me more than once in moments of desperation—that babies really need breast milk in the first year of life, that the average volume they eat is much smaller than we imagine “she said.
Phases
The authors will perform on two stages, operating simultaneously. One set up in the square and the other at the Football Museum, partner of the event. This year the organization also plans smaller, pocket-sized stages for debates and the launch of a parallel program proposed by the publishers participating in the event.
The Book Fair has more than 150 exhibitors, including publishers and bookshops, who sell their books in tents and benches set up in the square. Last year, in the five days of the event, there were 35 thousand visitors and more than 100 guest authors on the program.
Here is the first list of guests released by the organizers of the Book Fair:
Bernardo Esteves
Caetano W. Galindo
Camilla Fabbri
Camila Sosa Villada
Carlo Monteiro
Claudia Pineiro
Dan
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Iara Bidermann
Jabari Asim
Jamaica Kincaid
João Moreira Salles
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
Marcelo Viana
Maria Adelaide Amaral
Martinho da Vila
Nara Vidal
Natalia Timeman
Rita Lobo
Rodrigo Hübner Mendes
Rosa Freire d’Aguiar
Stenio Gardel
Tatiana Salem Levy
Vera Iaconelli
Source: Terra
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