The Paraty International Literary Festival (Flip) released the list of names confirmed in the Main Program of its 21st edition. In total there are 38 authors, 28 of whom are women.
Among the international names are Ecuadorian Mónica Ojeda, from “Madíbula”; Alana S. Portero, Spanish, trans woman and activist, author of “Maus Costumes”; Dionne Brand, author of “A Map to the Door of No Return”, from Trinidad and Tobago and others.
From Brazil, the list includes Itamar Vieira Junior, from “Torto Arado”; Manuela D’Ávila, from “Why We Fight”; Socorro Acioli, from “A Cabeça do Santo” and others.
Check out the full list:
International:
- Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria, USA)
- Alana Portero (Spain)
- Christina Sharpe (USA)
- David Jackson (USA)
- Dionne Brand (Trinidad and Tobago, Canada)
- Ilya Kaminsky (Ukraine, USA)
- Kelefa Sanneh (England, USA)
- Laura Wittner (Argentina)
- Manuel Mutimucuio (Mozambique)
- Marion Aubert (France)
- Mónica Ojeda (Ecuador)
- Nora Krug (Germany)
- Sinéad Gleeson (Ireland)
Nationals:
- Adriana Armony
- Angelica Freitas
- Bruna Beber
- Carla Akotirene
- Denise Carrascosa
- Eliane Marques
- Felipe Charbel
- Flora Süssekind
- Glicéria Tupinambá
- Gustavo Caboco
- Itamar Vieira Junior
- Joyce Berth
- Jorge Augusto
- José Henrique Bortoluci
- Leda Khartoum
- Leda Maria Martins
- Lubi Prates
- Luiza Romão
- Manuela D’Ávila
- Maria Dolores Rodriguez
- Marília Garcia
- Miriam Esposito
- Natalia Timerman
- Acioli help
- Tatiana Small
Flip 2023 takes place from November 22nd to 26th, 2023, and is curated by Fernanda Bastos, a journalist from Rio Grande do Sul and book editor, and Milena Britto, professor at UFBA. Both debuted as curators of Flip 2022, when they formed a collective alongside Pedro Meira Monteiro.
“Our desire in curating this year is to continue honoring the tradition of the festival and reproduce a small portion of the polyphony that is characteristic of a diverse and curious population such as Brazil, without losing sight of the fact that literature does not need to be distant and dissociated from desire of life for each and every one of us”, says Fernanda.
This year’s honored author is Patrícia Rehder Galvão, Pagu. She was a cartoonist, journalist, playwright, poet, translator, literary critic and multi-artist, actively working in the feminist, avant-garde and anti-fascist movements.
Pagu published the novels Parque Industrial (author’s edition, 1933), under the pseudonym Mara Lobo, considered the first Brazilian proletarian novel, and A Famosa Revista (Americ-Edit, 1945), in collaboration with Geraldo Ferraz.
He also wrote detective stories, under the pseudonym King Shelter, originally published in the pulp magazine Detective, published by Diários Associados. Some of these texts were directed by playwright Nelson Rodrigues, and later collected in Safra Macabra (Livraria José Olympio Editora, 1998).
Deeply engaged with social issues and unconventional par excellence, Pagu’s work has, over time, been embraced by women, feminists, concretists, Marxists, in addition to the most varied artistic and social currents, who see in his figure an emblem of strength feminist and avant-garde.
Source: CNN Brasil
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