On June 5th, the organizers of Flip, Paraty International Literary Festival, one of the most important events in the Brazilian editorial calendar, announced the theme and schedule of the 16th edition, which will take place from July 25th to 29th in the historic city of Paraty (RJ). This year, the event pays tribute to the writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004), who made her literature on themes such as love, death, God, finiteness, and transcendence. The author wrote poetry, fiction, theater, and chronicle, having built a singular work in Portuguese language in the second half of the 20th century.
According to the Flip general director, Mauro Munhoz, the choice was due to the fact that his work extrapolated borders. “The result is an innovative literature from the point of view of language that exercises, for example, a strong influence on the scene of today’s Brazilian dramaturgy”, details. He further states that the next issue of Flip will be intimate, with lots of poetry and drama, a bit of irreverence and debates about artistic creation, art, and nature, literature, and philosophy.
Luiz Alvaro Salles Aguiar de Menezes, International Relations Manager at Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL) and the person in charge of Brazilian Publishers – a project to foster Brazilian editorial content exports developed in partnership with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) – highlights the overall feature of the event. “Since the first edition, Flip has been a relevant platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences between the Brazilian and international publishing market. The event gathers numerous renowned authors, guaranteeing a strong exchange between national and international editors”, comments.
Highlights
This year’s Flip hosts 33 guests, most notably Colson Whitehead, award-winning author of “The Underground Railroad” (HarperCollins Brasil), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. He will share the table on Saturday with Geovani Martins, resident of the carioca community of Vidigal who has just made his debut in literature with “The Sun On My Head”, whose rights have already been sold to several countries and will become a movie directed by Karim Aïnouz.
Unlike the previous years, the event takes place next to the main church, in a tent for 500 people, with about 450 tickets available for sale and another 50 for distribution to the low-income population, guests, and sponsors. There will also be an area where you can watch the debates on a big screen.
The honored author will be remembered in some debates by Eder Chiodetto, Iara Jamra, and Zeca Baleiro. The Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro and Jocy de Oliveira, a pioneer in avant-garde music and today dedicated to multimedia opera, will be together at the opening panel. Sérgio Sant’Anna, Juliano Garcia Pessanha and Laura Erber are some of the Brazilian guests.
Among the foreigners, there are Leïla Slimani (Morocco/France), winner of the Goncourt with “Lullaby” (Tusquets); André Aciman (Egypt/USA), author of “Call Me by Your Name” (Instrínseca), which recently became a movie; the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Christopher de Hamel, specialist in medieval manuscripts. And Liudmila Petruchévskaia (Russia), Alain Mabanckou (Congo / France), Isabela Figueiredo (Mozambique / Portugal) and Swiss Fabio Pusterla and Italy’s Igiaba Scego, among others.
To know more, go to the official website of the event.
About Brazilian Publishers
Created in 2008, Brazilian Publishers is a project to foster exports of Brazilian editorial content promoted by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil). The purpose is to promote Brazil’s publishing industry in the global market in a targeted and articulated manner, contributing to the professionalization of publishing houses.