http://www.flip.org.br FLIP News en Plone http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=561 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:33:10 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=557 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:51:36 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=554 Fri, 2 Jul 2010 20:24:21 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=551 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:04:53 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=548 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:10:43 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=544 Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:33:32 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=543 Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:58:11 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=540 Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:35:37 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=534 The diplomat Alberto da Costa e Silva, the sociologist Angela Alonso and the writer Reinaldo Moraes have all confirmed their presence at the 8th edition of the International Literary Festival of Paraty. Occupant of chair number 9 at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the diplomat, poet, essayist, memoirist and historian Alberto Costa e Silva will be taking part in one of the round-table discussions on this year’s tribute author, Gilberto Freyre. A lecturer at the Sociology department of the University of São Paulo (USP) and a researcher at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap), Angela Alonso will also be taking part in the tribute to Gilberto Freyre. Making a second appearance at Flip is Reinaldo Moraes, author of Pornopopéia. His other works include Tanto faz, Abacaxi, Órbitas dos caracóis and Umidade. Read more. Mon, 24 May 2010 13:47:38 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=528 It all began when Benjamin Moser, still a college student, took a course on Brazilian literature on which he read The Hour of the Star, sparking an unbridled passion for Clarice Lispector. A few years later, while living in Holland, he learned that the author would be the subject of a tribute at the International Literary Festival of Paraty (FLIP 2005). He took the first available flight to Brazil, thus beginning a near-total dedication to penning her biography, Clarice,. What ensued were “five years of knocking on doors the world over”, as he explains. The passion of Hermano Vianna, on the other hand, is to be able to lend voice to a range of cultural manifestations. The anthropologist from João Pessoa is co-curator of the cultural website Overmundo, a collaborative site geared towards Brazilian culture and culture produced by Brazilians abroad, especially those practices, manifestations and forms of production that do not find expression in the traditional media. Read more. Thu, 6 May 2010 11:44:12 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=527 The couple formed by the Brazilian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke and the Englishman Peter Burke has confirmed participation at the 8th edition of the International Literary Festival of Paraty. Both historians, they have co-authored Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics (Past and Present). In a bid to explain this multidisciplinary thinker – who, in addition to being an historian, was also an active sociologist, journalist, cultural critic, deputy, novelist, poet and artist – Maria Lúcia and Peter Burke combed through interviews with friends and acquaintances from Pernambuco, academic theses, studies on Brazilian lifestyles and documents penned by Freyre himself in search of material from which to draw a substantial narrative about his life and work. Whilst taking a critical approach to the Pernambucan author’s oeuvre, the Burkes recognize his many qualities, presenting a rich variety of cultural and political contexts. Read more. Wed, 5 May 2010 16:00:34 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=523 With a little over three months to go before the opening of the 8th edition of the International Literary Festival of Paraty, 13 authors have confirmed their presence. The latest guests to come on-board are the North-Americans William Kennedy and Gilbert Shelton. The work of the author William Kennedy offers a mix of players, politicians, gangsters and journalists, almost all of Irish origins. All of these are in Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, originally published in 1978 and re-released in Brazil this year. Gilbert Shelton is an underground cartoonist whose first strips were published in Texas Ranger – a comic magazine published by the University of Texas, where, in 1961, he took a degree in the social sciences. Resident in Paris, his titles in Brazil include Fat Freddy’s Cat, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and The Freak Brothers. Read more Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:45:31 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=522 Screened correspondence, nude photos, an award-winning book at the age of 17 and diaries, all of this is part of the universe of the Cuban Wendy Guerra. At this year’s Flip, the writer is not only going to release her new nove l Nunca fui primeira dama [I Never Was First Lady], but will be in Brazil in person to speak about her life and work. Her correspondence with her Brazilian editor saw her hauled before Cuban authorities eager for an explanation. A graduate in Cinema, Wendy has posed naked for photos more than once, always alleging that she stripped off for art, not money. In 2006, she received the Bruguera Award for her first novel Todos se van (based on her diaries). Read more Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:58 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=521 A symbol of 60s counterculture, Robert Crumb is the tenth author to confirm his presence at this year’s International Literary Festival of Paraty. Steeped in what the literary critic Harold Bloom describes as dark humor, in late 2009 Crumb released Genesis, a cartoon version of the oldest book in the Bible. In order to produce this 210-page tome, the cartoonist spent four years devoted to religious studies – consulting everything from the most varied interpretations of the Biblical text to the photographic record of the Holy Land. A self-declared agnostic, prior to his cartoon take on the book of Genesis, Crumb had already adapted works by Franz Kafka, Charles Bukowski and Philip K. Dick. Read more Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:44:43 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=516 Over the last few years, a Associação Casa Azul has been able to count on the support and generosity of people who believe in our aims. The International Literary Festival of Paraty is one of the projects undertaken by Casa Azul, a public-interest civil society organization with the mission of preserving the town’s material and cultural heritage, conducting ongoing educational activities and tackling problems of urban infrastructure. Casa Azul invites you to become a part of this initiative. Click here to find out more about becoming a Flip Patron Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:22:30 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=515 Robert Darnton is a Harvard-educated historian with a doctorate in history from Oxford University. A specialist in 18th-century French history, his studies focus on the Enlightenment and French Revolution. One of Darnton’s main concerns is the growing power accumulated by the media and the lack of space and penetration of works of history among the reading public. Darnton is the author of The Great Cat Massacre and Other Events in French Cultural History; The Literary Underground of the Old Regime; The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History; Edition et sédition. L'univers de la littérature clandestine au XVIIIe siècle; The Business of Enlightenment; and George Washington’s False Teeth. Read more... Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:56:58 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=512 Author of the preface to the most recent edition of The Masters and The Slaves and numerous other texts on works by this year’s tribute author Gilberto Freyre, the sociologist and former Brazilian president will analyze the complexities and contradictions in the thought of one of the best-ever interpreters of Brazilian culture at the 2010 opening conference. Lionel Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver in 1957, in North Carolina, USA, and changed her name at the age of 15. A graduate and post-graduate from Columbia University, she has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast. We Need To Talk About Kevin, her seventh novel, was turned down by literary agents and over 30 publishers before taking the British “Orange Prize” in 2005. Read more... Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:39:32 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=510 The Iranian writer Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will be at this year’s Festival. Translated into 32 languages, the book, which describes the experiences of a secular woman living and working in the Islamic Republic of Iran, spent 117 weeks on the bestseller’s list of The New York Times and earned Nafisi a share of awards Read more... Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:50:58 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=506 Another name is confirmed for this year’s Literary Festival: the biting critic of materialist culture Terry Eagleton, author of a dozen books and countless articles and reviews. His best-known work is Literary Theory: an introduction, which traces the history of the study of contemporary… more Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:29:41 -0300 http://www.flip.org.br/noticias.php3?id=504 English author William Boyd and the Israeli Abraham B. Yehoshua have confirmed their presence at FLIP 2010. Boyd has published 10 novels, 3 collections of short stories and one work of non-fiction, including the novel A good Man in Africa (1981), for which he won two major awards - the “Whitbread” and “Somerset Maugham”. The author has worked as TV critic for The New Statesman and as a lecturer on the contemporary novel at Oxford University, England. Boyd had previously been invited to FLIP in 2007, but was unable to attend. Abraham B. Yehoshua has written many novels, plays and essays and his work has been translated into 28 languages. Read more. Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:03:20 -0300