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1 – 2016 FICTION & NONFICTION BERNARDI, Tati – And They Call Me Mad .................................................................................................... 3 DAPIEVE, Arthur – Maracanazo and Other Stories ................................................................................. 4 HANNS, Luiz – The Art of Setting Boundaries: How to change the behaviour of children and teenagers .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 PIANGERS, Marcos – Dad is Cool ........................................................................................................................... 6 STIGGER, Veronica – Opisanie świata ........................................................................................................... 7 TELLES, Lygia Fagundes – The Green Ball .................................................................................................. 9 VERISSIMO, Luis Fernando Lies Women Tell .................................................................................................................................... 11 Lies Men Tell........................................................................................................................................... 12 CHILDREN'S & YOUNG READERS' ACIOLI, Socorro – The Ghost Ballerina: Anabela in four acts ............................................................. 14 AUERBACH, Patricia The Newspaper...................................................................................................................................... 15 The Scarf .................................................................................................................................................. 16 COLASANTI, Marina – A True-Blue Idea..................................................................................................... 17 FRANCO, Blandina and LOLLO, José Carlos – Animal Restaurant ................................................... 18 STRAUSZ, Rosa Amanda – The Kingdom Divided in Two .................................................................... 19 2 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] AND THEY CALL ME MAD (Depois a louca sou eu) Tati Bernardi Companhia das Letras, 2016 144 pages With humour and irreverence, Tati Bernardi recollects stories of panic, love and hard-core prescription drugs. At first sight this book has all the clichés of hysterical verbosity, daring to reveal what it is like to be a woman, “plagued by yeast infections and empty promises”. Self-compassion and self-criticism alternate at a dizzying pace, with comic exaggeration revealing the flip side of the genders and of the feminist, or post-feminist writing, in the form of an unprecedented scatological study, composed of bouts of cystitis and constipation. This author is not a misogynist, though – the focus of her misanthropy is wide-ranging – and she proves capable of the most radical narrative intensity, like a soap opera scriptwriter who is a secret disciple of, let’s say, Kierkegaard. She felt like an overly sensitive child. And finally discovered the wonders of the first Rivotril tablet, “fine rain that fell on a bed of fresh basil”. Near the book’s denouement, when no antidepressants or therapy sessions will make any difference, literature appears to be a remedy for the soul, capable of curing the authentic writer and the sincere reader. In a disturbing yet comforting observation, “nobody is well”. Otavio Frias Filho Tati Bernardi was born in 1979 in the city of São Paulo. She has a degree in Advertising and Marketing and studied literature as a post-graduate. She is a writer and columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, writes for the Globo media group and is a screenwriter for the cinema. Selected titles: Meu passado me condena (Paralela, 2016) The movies Meu passado me condena 1 and 2 drew in more than 6 milion viewers. 3 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] MARACANAZO AND OTHER STORIES (Maracanazo e outras histórias) Arthur Dapieve Alfaguara, 2015 160 pages Football, rock, classical music. The sea of Copacabana and the city of Rio de Janeiro. In these five stories, Arthur Dapieve weaves together fact and fiction to create stories with different chronological and geographical settings, but which collectively display considerable narrative cohesion, whether in terms of their contemporaneity or their impact. In “Bad times”, the first story in the collection, two boys are surfing on the rough sea of Copacabana, alone, under low cloud, unaware that they are about to experience an unexpected event. In “Fragment of the landscape” and “Winter, 1968”, Dapieve explores the world of music, but at two very different times: the first story revolves around a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. The second is set during a Pink Floyd rehearsal in London, a key moment in the history of rock music. “Block”, the fourth story in this collection, describes the absurdity of being caught up in a gridlock in the streets of Rio. “Maracanazo”, the story that brings the volume to a close, is a surprising tale that begins with the football match that eliminated the Spanish national team from the 2014 World Cup and then focuses on two characters, a Spanish man and a Chilean woman, from very different backgrounds, rivals, who in the course of the night will end up revealing their real intentions. Arthur Dapieve was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1963. He graduated in journalism from the PUC-Rio, the university where he currently teaches. He is also a cultural editor and reporter. Translation available in French. Maracanazo sold to: France: Éditions Folies D’Encre Selected titles: De cada amor tu herdarás só o cinismo (Objetiva, 2004) Portugal: Quetzal Black music (Objetiva, 2008) France: Asphalte 4 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] THE ART OF SETTING BOUNDARIES: How to change the behaviour of children and teenagers (A arte de dar limites: como mudar atitudes de crianças e adolescentes) Luiz Hanns Paralela/Companhia das Letras, 2015 472 pages Many of the new generation of children and teenagers have difficulty in accepting the existence of personal and collective boundaries. As the real-life cases discussed in this book illustrate, parents face the permanent challenge of setting limits and preparing their children for life. Drawing on examples and international research, the psychologist Luiz Hanns identifies the reasons for this difficulty and proposes an innovative way of raising children: planned parenting. Unlike traditional corrective parenting, planned parenting – presented in this book via real case studies and exercises for parents and children to practice at home – introduces a wider system of boundaries and stimuli that can lead to major changes in behaviour. It anticipates and, when necessary, corrects problems, teaching children and teenagers how to deal with life. A transformative way of parenting that is aimed not only at children, but also at their parents. Luiz Hanns has a degree in psychology and business administration. He has a masters and a doctorate in psychology and has worked as a couples’ counsellor for over twenty years. Selected titles: A equação do casamento (Paralela, 2013) Portugal: Vogais 5 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] DAD IS COOL (O papai é pop) Marcos Piangers Belas Letras, 2015 112 pages So, you and your partner are expecting. You know you need to buy a bigger house. You need more room for the child. You need more than a one-bedroom apartment. You must have a new crib – you can’t use the one your neighbor said you could borrow. And you know you gotta replace your car. That car isn’t comfortable for a family. That car isn’t safe for your child. It must have six airbags at least. It must come with an AC straight from the manufacturer. Having been a father at a young age, the comedy writer Marcos Piangers found out these things don't really matter. Having a large apartment doesn’t really matter, because children like sleeping on their parents’ bed. Having a large car doesn’t really matter, because children like riding bikes. Going to the best daycare doesn’t really matter, if you’re the last one picking up your child. Having the most expensive toys and videogames doesn’t really matter. Children actually have more fun balancing on the curb or skipping the cracks on the sidewalk. Tossing your kid up in the air – that’s the best pastime in the world for little ones. The thing is, what really matters, as the funny and moving texts from Dad is Cool show us, is to be with your kids not thinking of something else. Really being with them. Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_7jNUlTEAI Book website: http://papaipop.jimdo.com/ Author’s page: http://www.piangers.com/ Marcos Piangers works with new media and digital platforms. Born in Florianópolis, in 2006 he moved to Porto Alegre, from where he broadcasts the programme Pretinho Básico, winner of the iTunes Best of 2014 prize. Piangers has taught classes in humour and creative thought. Translation available in English. Dad is Cool sold to: Portugal: Editorial Planeta Spain: Editora Planeta 6 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] OPISANIE ŚWIATA Veronica Stigger Cosac Naify, 2013 160 pages On the eve of World War II, Opalka, a Polish man of around 60, receives a letter at his home whereby he discovers he has a son in Brazil. In serious condition at a hospital in the Amazon, he asks to meet the father he's heard so much about, but has never seen. Enclosed is a steamship ticket for his passage. Opalka decides to meet his son and revisit the country where he'd traveled as a young man decades ago, but to which had never returned. Waiting at the Warsaw train station, Opalka meets Bopp, a flamboyant Brazilian traveler and polyglot who, upon learning the reason for this circumspect gentleman's journey, decides to accompany him. Bopp presents him with a kind of talisman for the trip, a Latin America travel guidebook, whose often surprising, and always amusing, advice is transcribed throughout the text. On the train that takes them to their European port of departure, then on the ship that will cross the ocean toward the Amazon rainforest, these two unlikely travel companions encounter a cast of characters, such as Dona Oliva and her nieces, Mr. and Mrs. Andrade, Curto Chivito from Uruguay and his German companion, Hans, Priscila the dancer and a cantankerous Russian. In addition to passages from the guidebook, interspersed with the chapters are photos of Poland, postcards, letters, diary entries, period advertisements and colorful news reports. When they reach the Amazon, before parting ways, Bopp gives Opalka a notebook for him to write his “description of the word” (Opisanie świata, in Polish): “Here,” said Bopp, handing him a black notebook. “It’s a present. For taking notes. For you to write down what happened. To help you get over it. And to not forget. We write to not forget. Or to pretend we didn’t forget.” Opisanie świata is the Polish title of Il Milione, Marco Polo's travelogue (known as The Travels of Marco Polo in English). In this novel, the winner of several awards, Veronica Stigger invites the reader to follow Opalka on a fascinating journey between two rapidly disappearing worlds, departing Europe on the brink of World War II, and arriving in the Amazon, whose decline and devastation are well underway. Opisanie świata is a powerful allegory of literature, casting a final glance at what will be lost, at what will soon exist only in the words of artists and poets. It is no coincidence that Veronica Stigger's novel is also a brilliant stylistic exercise, playing with the narratives of a number of authors, both Brazilian and European from the turn of the 20th century, and evoking a dreamworld similar to those found in films by Federico Fellini, Wes Anderson or Miguel Gomes. 7 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] Veronica Stigger was born in Porto Alegre in 1973, and has lived in São Paulo since 2001. She is a writer, an art critic and a university professor. Translation sample available in English. Awards: - Machado de Assis Award from National Library Foundation, 2013 - São Paulo Literature Prize – New Author (over 40), 2014 - Açorianos Prize for long narrative, 2014 - Third place in the Jabuti Prize, 2014 - Shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize Opisanie Świata sold to: Mexico: Editorial Antílope Selected titles: Gran Cabaret Demenzial (Cosac Naify, 2007) Os anões (Cosac Naify, 2010) Onde a onça bebe água (children’s, Cosac Naify, 2015 - with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro) 8 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] THE GREEN BALL (Antes do baile verde) Lygia Fagundes Telles Companhia das Letras, 2009 208 pages Lygia Fagundes Telles was nominated by the União dos Escritores Brasileiros (Brazilian Writers’ Union) as a candidate for the Nobel Prize Gazing at an old tapestry for sale in an antique shop, a man becomes so fascinated that he plunges into the scene that it depicts. One night during carnival, two young women, a housewife and her maid, add the finishing touches to a fancy dress costume while a man is on his deathbed in the room next door. A young man invites his ex-girlfriend on a date in a deserted cemetery and the two of them go inside a tomb. A little boy goes to the cinema with his mother and unwittingly witnesses a real scene of adultery. The stories in The Green Ball reveal and delve into an extremely varied range of human experiences, and the encounters, near misses and metamorphoses that they entail. Lygia Fagundes Telles, the writer of this mystery, reminds us of the likes of Edgar Allan Poe in her exploration of the fascinating realm of the fantastic. Skilfully handling ellipses and changes in points of view, the author generally leaves the illuminating revelations, and the unexpected and mind-boggling twist in the tale for the very end of the story. The Green Ball proves Telles’ immense talent for revealing in words her subtle humour and poetic talent. Published in 1970, the book was revised and re-published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras in 2009. Lygia Fagundes Telles was born and lives in São Paulo. She studied law and physical education before devoting herself entirely to literature. Critically acclaimed as one of the most important Brazilian writers, her body of work comprises 18 short story anthologies and four novels, having sold three million copies. She has been translated to more than eleven countries and has had works adapted into movies, TV and theater. Lygia Fagundes Telles became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1985, and in 2005 was awarded the Camões Prize, the most important prize for literature in the Portuguese language. 9 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] “Above all, Lygia Fagundes Telles has been able to go beyond the autobiographical sphere that the work of so many modern short story writers desperately clings to. She thus possesses the first quality demanded of a writer of fiction, namely she knows how to put herself in other people’s skin. This is a further ambiguity of the short story, which she takes command of with the same authority as Machado de Assis or Joaquim Paço D’Arcos.” Wilson Martins “The brilliance of Lygia’s text lies in the unity, density and extraordinary dignity that it gives to the Portuguese language, even when dealing with sordid, perverse or violent situations and themes. Reading the work of Lygia Fagundes Telles, for those who are given to such cultured pursuits, entails the pleasurable discovery of beauty, sonority and expressivity.” Caio Fernando Abreu “However, a word of caution. The short stories feature oppressed, frequently impetuous, and sometimes criminal individuals. Nothing is explained: a few objects, a few details are enough to set the tone. A messy dressing table, a string of pearls curled up in a husband’s pocket, and the characters are plunged into self-doubt, anger, rage and jealousy. Caught up in this passionate haze, readers delight in abandoning themselves to their thirst for explanations and discoveries.” Jean Soublin, L’Express “With exceptional energy and subtlety the author successfully conveys diversity and contrasts by using an extremely flexible language, one that adapts to suit all the various mutations, whether to just dryly hint at them or to engage and enthrall the reader.” Michel Nuridsany, Le Figaro, about Seminar on the Extermination of Rats “A lively, flexible, impressionistic prose style, which invites the reader to share the narrator’s point of view. A host of visual effects and emotional storylines. And so many (dozens, dozens) of wonderful stories that Katherine Mansfield would have been proud to put her name to.” Hélio Pólvora about The Structure of a Bubble of Soap Translated short stories available in English. The Green Ball was published in Portugal, in the Czech Republic and in France many years ago, but now all rights are available. Selected titles: The Girl in the Photograph (Companhia das Letras, 1974, 2009) USA: Dalkey Archive Press - Coelho Neto Award, by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, 1974 - Winner of the Jabuti Prize, 1974 - Winner of the APCA Prize Seminar of the Rats (Companhia das Letras, 1977, 2009) - PEN Clube Brasil Award, 1977 Stone Dance Song (Companhia das Letras, 1954, 2009) Soap opera aired in 1981 and on a new version in 2008. The Dark Night and Me (Companhia das Letras, 1995, 2009) - Winner of the Jabuti Prize, 1996 - Best short stories book, by the National Library, 1996 - APLUB Award, 1996 The Naked Hours (Companhia das Letras, 1989, 2010) - Pedro Nava Award for Best Book of the Year, 1989 The Structure of a Bubble of Soap (Companhia das Letras, 1991, 2010) 10 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] LIES WOMEN TELL (Mentiras que as mulheres contam) Luis Fernando Verissimo Objetiva, 2015 184 pages — Sweetheart, you promised the party would be over by 2. — And it did, daddy. —Well, yes, but not in the afternoon! It all starts with your mum. “Here comes the plane”, she says, flying that spoon into your mouth. It is the inaugural lie, one that will have many incarnations throughout your life. Here you will find the masters of dissimulation. There is the woman who made up a lover just to make her husband jealous, the lady who cheats on herself through a string of plastic surgeries and the young woman who lies about her age – upwards! – hoping to hear she looks really young. There is drama, comedies and tragicomedies – and even outright tragedies. All of them, though, infused with Verissimo’s irresistible wit. Luis Fernando Verissimo was born in 1936, in the southern city of Porto Alegre, where he still lives. He is one of Brazil’s most successful writers. More than best-sellers (he has sold over 5 million copies), his works are Brazilian classics that deal with contemporary everyday lives. To read Verissimo is to find coherence in paradoxes and to witness the subtlety of human behaviour at its most poetic or most pathetic, sometimes sweet, sometimes dramatic. Selected titles: The Club of Angels (Objetiva, 1998) England: Harvill France: Éditions du Seuil Germany: Lichtenberg Verlag/Droemer Greece: Enalios Holland: Athenaeum Italy: Ponte Alle Grazie Korea: Woogjin Think Big Co. Lithuania: Versus Aureus Portugal: Dom Quixote Romania: Curtea Vechea Publishing Spain: Plaza y Janés Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans (Companhia das Letras, 2009) Argentina: Editorial Sudamerica Denmark; Glyldend Al England: Harvill France: Éditions du Seuil Greece: Agra Publications Israel: Bambook Publishers Italy: Atmosphere Libri Japan: Fusosha Korea: Woogjin Think Big Co Russia: AST Publishers Japan: Fusosha Russia: AST Publishers Spain: Ézaro Serbia and Montenegro: Trivic Turkey: Monokl Yayinlari USA: New Directions 11 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] LIES MEN TELL (Mentiras que os homens contam) Luis Fernando Verissimo Objetiva, 2000 176 pages — Have you read my book? — I did. It’s great! Not quite. Men don’t lie. They might make up stories to protect women. Seriously. It all starts with your mother, it’s a scientific fact. Remember that day you woke up with a strange chest pain and told your mum you couldn’t go to school? You didn’t mention that forgotten homework. What you said was that you were very ill and your days were numbered. You made her happy. Or isn’t taking care of you the happiest she’ll ever be? In this book, Luis Fernando Verissimo’s brilliant prose decodes the circumstances in which such lies are almost truths. Who has never been stopped on the street by a happy chap asking “Remember me?”. And who has never, against anyone’s better judgement, answered “Sure!”, while desperately trying to buy some time and some more information to place an identity on that perfect stranger. Lies are justified, and sometimes inevitable, in social interactions. Small lies, of course. The ones that go subtly through the day without wreaking any big or irreversible damage. Lies Men Tell doesn’t judge, it only acknowledges, men don’t lie. And if they do, it’s because they need to. For women’s sake.. Luis Fernando Verissimo was born in 1936, in the southern city of Porto Alegre, where he still lives. He is one of Brazil’s most successful writers. More than best-sellers (he has sold over 5 million copies), his works are Brazilian classics that deal with contemporary everyday lives. To read Verissimo is to find coherence in paradoxes and to witness the subtlety of human behaviour at its most poetic or most pathetic, sometimes sweet, sometimes dramatic. Lies Men Tell sold to: Italy: Ponte Alle Grazie Korea: Woogjin Thing Big Co. Portugal: Dom Quixote Spain: Ezaro Selected titles: The Spies (Alfaguara, 2009) France: Folies d’Encre Holland: Athenaeum Portugal: Dom Quixote UK: MacLehose Press Romania: Vivaldi Serbia and Montenegro: Paideia O opositor (Objetiva, 2004) France: Éditions du Seuil Germany: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Romania: Vivaldi Spain (Catalan): Ediciones La Campana 12 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] CHILDREN’S & YOUNG READERS’ THE GHOST BALLERINA: Anabela in four acts (A bailarina fantasma: Anabela em quatro atos) Socorro Acioli Companhia das Letras/Seguinte, 2016 192 pages Anabela’s father was the architect chosen to coordinate a project at the José de Alencar Theatre in Fortaleza: she could barely contain her excitement! The project involved preserving the original features of that wonderful entertainment venue which first opened over a century ago in 1910. In no time at all it became routine for Anabela to spend her afternoons in that old theatre doing her homework while her father worked. But the renovation project ended up unearthing mysteries hidden away many, many years ago… To Anabela’s surprise, a translucent ballerina dressed in blue appeared dancing on the stage and following her down the corridors. What on earth could she be doing there? And why is it that only Anabel can see her? Who is that ballerina and why is she making an appearance? Socorro Acioli was born in Fortaleza. She is a journalist, has a master’s degree in Brazilian Literature and a PhD in Literary Studies. She started her writing career in 2001 and since then has published books of various genres, including children’s short stories and YA novels, and has received Brazil’s most prestigious prize for children’s literature, the Jabuti Prize. In 2006, she was selected to take part in a workshop conducted by the Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel García Márquez. The author was selected by Márquez himself based on her synopsis for The Head of the Saint. Socorro is also a translator, essayist and literary theory teacher. Awards: - Highly Recommended, by the National Foundation of Children and YA Book – 2011 - Winner of the Ceará Movie and Video Award 2010 for Best Script Selected titles: The Head of the Saint (Companhia das Letras, 2014) France: Belleville USA: Delacorte Press UK: Hot Key Books - Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize 14 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] e Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] THE NEWSPAPER (O jornal) Patricia Auerbach Brinque Book, 2012 32 pages When he notices that his father never puts his newspaper down, the little boy wants to play with it too. He wants to discover what is so special about that particular object. This book illustrates the extent to which a child’s imagination can be stretched by turning a piece of paper into the most entertaining adventures. Patricia Auerbach was born in São Paulo in 1978. She studied Architecture, has worked as an art director and taught History of Art. Today she teaches Art for kids at school, writes and illustrates books. Awards: - Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize – Best Illustration Children’s/Young Reader 2012 - National Foundation of Children and YA Book Award for Best Picture Book 2012 Selected titles: The Scarf (Brinque Book, 2013) - Highly Recommended, by the National Foundation of Children and YA Book – 2013 15 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] e Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] THE SCARF (O lenço) Patricia Auerbach Brinque Book, 2013 32 pages Do you know what a scarf is for? I do. Can I tell you? A little girl finds a scarf in her mother’s drawer, and with it a thousand different possibilities: the scarf is transformed into a sail, a cloak, a dress and whatever else her imagination comes up with, showing that all everyday objects have their playful side. Patricia Auerbach was born in São Paulo in 1978. She studied Architecture, has worked as an art director and taught History of Art. Today she teaches Art for kids at school, writes and illustrates books. Awards: - Highly Recommended, by the National Foundation of Children and YA Book – 2013 Selected titles: The Newspaper (Brinque Book, 2012) - Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize – Best Illustration Children’s/Young Reader 2012 - National Foundation of Children and YA Book Award for Best Picture Book 2012 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] e Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] 16 A TRUE-BLUE IDEA (Uma ideia toda azul) Marina Colasanti Global, 1998 64 pages A True-Blue Idea was a born classic. Not because it deals with the traditional themes of short stories, or because its characters are kings, princesses, unicorns and fairies, but because it explores an inner realm that is timeless. In this book Marina Colasanti, one of Brazil’s leading writers for children and young people, breathes new life into a world that seemed as if it had nothing novel to offer, transforming it with her words, and creating something fresh from the familiar. The main themes of “Two Velvet Wings”, “An Ivory Thorn” and “Among the Green Leaves” are love and death. Love also features in “Seven Years and a Further Seven”, a recreation of the famous “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”. Sibling rivalry is the main theme of “Beyond the Hoop” and “Stitch after Stitch”. Both stories explore in depth that natural emotion, enabling the reader to feel a mixture of identification and horror. “The Last King” presents us with the infinite possibilities of thought and freedom. KublaiKhan, the last of the Mogul dynasty, imprisoned within the walls of his castle, was told about the world outside by the wind. In the title story, “A True-Blue Idea”, a young king hides his idea, fearing that it might be stolen. Now an old man, when he gives up the throne he runs through his palace and down several staircases to look for his idea in the “Great Halls of Time”. “In the ivory bed the idea was sleeping peacefully just like it was on that distant day. Just like on that youthful day, so distant now, a lovely, little idea. But the king was no longer the king he was on that day. A great deal of time had passed out there in the world, distancing him from his idea, but time had stood still in the Room of Sleep.” A True-Blue Idea is not only a book for children. Like the tales of Grimm or Andersen, in their original versions, it also has deep meanings for older readers. Marina Colasanti was born in the former Italian colony of Eritrea in 1937. As a child, her family moved back to Italy, from where they emigrated to Brazil after the end of World War II. She is one of the most awarded female Brazilian writers, author of about 40 books, including works for children and young adults, short stories, novels, and essays. Graduated in Fine Arts, she illustrates most of her books. Marina is also a renowned translator from English, French, and Italian. Translation in English is available. Prêmios: - Best for Young Readers, FNLIJ, 1979 - Great APCA Award, 1979 - APCA Award, for children’s book, 1979 - Ciranda de Livros Project - 1983 - Recriança/FNLIJ Project – 1986 - Meu Livro, Meu Companheiro/FNLIJ Project – 1988 Títulos selecionados: Short Story of a Tiny Love (FTD, 2014) Colombia (Latin America): Alfaguara - Book of the Year by the Brazilian Book Chamber, 2014 - Jabuti Prize for Best Children’s Book A True-Blue Idea sold to: France: L’Harmattan 17 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] e Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] ANIMAL RESTAURANT (Restaurante animal) Blandina Franco and José Carlos Lollo FTD, 2015 48 pages This book is about a restaurant that aims to please the palates of different kinds of animals. Through various rhymes we discover the gastronomic preferences of dogs, fleas, fish, whales, cows and beetles... It is a restaurant that caters to sophisticated or bizarre tastes. It all depends on the customer’s requests! Blandina Franco writes children’s books. She found out that she wanted to write children’s book when she was over 40 of age, and once she started, she never stopped anymore. José Carlos Lollo illustrates children’s books. He is an awarded Art director, who has worked for the biggest advertising agencies in Brazil, and who found out that what he likes to do best is to illustrate children’s books. Blandina Franco and José Carlos Lollo, together, have published over thirty children’s books in the last five years. Translation in English is available. Selected titles: The Anger (Pequena Zahar, 2014) China: Jieli Publishing House Co. - Jabuti Prize for Best Children’s Book (shortlisted twice) - Honorable Mention – Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award at the Bologna Book Fair 2012 18 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] e Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] THE KINGDOM DIVIDED IN TWO (O reino partido ao meio) Rosa Amanda Strausz, illustrated by Natalia Colombo Companhia das Letrinhas, 2016 32 pages There are some things in life that it seems will never change. But sometimes, when we least expect it, a sudden event turns everything upside down. This is what happens to the little prince in this story. Because of an angry dragon, in the blink of an eye his kingdom and the things in it are split in two. Initially the situation is frightening and difficult to accept. But in time the prince ends up discovering new approaches to existence and understanding that there is more than one way to live. Rosa Amanda Strausz born in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, graduated in Journalism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She was the editor of Doce de Letra, the first Brazilian website dedicated solely to children’s literature, between 1997 and 2007. Her book Uólace e João Vitor was later adapted into the TV series Cidade dos Homens (2002). Translation in French is available. Selected titles: Uólace e João Victor (FTD, 1999) -Best New Writer, by the National Foundation of Children and YA Book - Highly Recommended, by the National Foundation of Children and YA Book – 1999 -João-de-Barro Prize -Finalist of the Prix Tam-Tam Minha mãe trouxe um lobo pra casa/A coleção de bruxas do meu pai (FTD, 1995) A Knot in the Head (FTD, 2011) 19 Riff Agency: Lucia Riff, [email protected] e Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected] AUTHORS FICTION Adélia PRADO Adriana LISBOA* Adriana LUNARDI* Alberto MARTINS Alexandre VIDAL PORTO Amílcar BETTEGA Anna MONTEIRO Antonia PELLEGRINO Arthur DAPIEVE Beatriz BRACHER Carlos de BRITO E MELLO Carlos Herculano LOPES Cintia MOSCOVICH Claudia TAJES Cristiane COSTA Cristovão TEZZA Emilio FRAIA Fernando SCHELLER Flavio CAFIERO Flávio CARNEIRO Flávio IZHAKI Giovana S. MADALOSSO Guiomar de GRAMMONT Henrique RODRIGUES Ivana Arruda LEITE João Luiz Anzanello CARRASCOZA José Luiz PASSOS* José Rubem FONSECA* Julia WAHMANN Leticia WIERZCHOWSKI Livia GARCIA-ROZA Lucrécia ZAPPI Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMO Lya LUFT Lygia Fagundes TELLES Marcelo FERRONI Marcos PERES Maria Adelaide AMARAL Maria Valéria REZENDE Ricardo LÍSIAS Rodrigo LACERDA Sérgio RODRIGUES Tati BERNARDI Tércia MONTENEGRO Teresa CÁRDENAS Tony BELLOTTO Vanessa BARBARA Veronica STIGGER Vitor RAMIL NONFICTION Adriana CARRANCA Aldo BIZZOCCHI Barbara VEIGA Carlos DOMINGOS Ciça GUEDES Cora RÓNAI Dodô AZEVEDO Dorrit HARAZIM Eliane BRUM* Elio GASPARI Gladis BRUN João Silvério TREVISAN Karla MONTEIRO Kledir RAMIL Luiz Alberto HANNS Luiz Eduardo SOARES Malu GASPAR Márcia ZOLADZ Michelli PROVENSI Murilo FIUZA Patrícia Toledo de CAMPOS MELLO Paulo Cesar de ARAÚJO Pedro MARCONDES Roberto DaMATTA Teté RIBEIRO Vicente de BRITTO PEREIRA Zuenir VENTURA INFANTIL/JUVENIL Adriana FALCÃO Alfredo SERTÃ Anna Bella GEIGER Antonio PRATA Blandina FRANCA Carol SABAR Caroline CHANG Cecília VASCONCELLOS Fernanda de CASTRO E LIMA Fernanda VERÍSSIMO Flávia LINS E SILVA Gisela DE CASTRO Luiz Claudio CARDOSO Marcelo PIRES Marcio VASSALLO Mariana VERÍSSIMO Marina COLASANTI ONDJAKI* Patrícia AUERBACH Rosa Amanda STRAUSZ Socorro ACIOLI Suzana VARGAS Sylvia ORTHOF Vivi MAUREY CLASSIC AUTHORS Alcione ARAUJO Ariano SUASSUNA Augusto Frederico SCHMIDT Caio Fernando ABREU Carlos DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Celso LUFT Érico VERÍSSIMO João CABRAL DE MELO NETO Jorge ANDRADE Jorge de LIMA José Cândido de CARVALHO Josué de CASTRO Manoel de BARROS Mª Julieta DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Mario QUINTANA MILLÔR Fernandes Moacyr SCLIAR* Murilo MENDES Oswald de ANDRADE Otto Lara RESENDE Paulo Emílio SALES GOMES Paulo Mendes CAMPOS Paulo RÓNAI Rachel de QUEIROZ Ricardo RAMOS Sérgio PORTO *only for Brazil 20
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