domingo, 11 de novembro de 2012

Cristhiano Aguiar - Granta List

Totally thrilled to be reminded as Granta publishes its list of 20 up and coming Brazilian Novelists that the first name on the list is Cristhiano Aguiar. I spent time with Cristhiano at UFPE in 2004, as
a fellow student on the Letras Course. He was widely seen as the best student, and came first in the class at the end of his undergraduate course. I once shared a bus journey with him through Recife to the University - the campus is on the Varzea, about an hour from Boa Viagem, as he hand wrote  4 very shaky pages of titles and reading `musts` about the Didatura for me, very knowledgeable and kind. Since then he has been publishing, and promoting literature and poetry events in Recife, editing the UFPE Crispim journal, and the same in Paraiba where his family, who are also academics have been based.  He had gone to California recently to do his PHD, but I see that much of his web presence - his long term blog Linguagem Guilhotina 
and other material has disappeared, as I expect his publicity will now be less personal !

Cristhiano  (on right) at Freeport – the Recife Literary festival.

There is a special event at the Brazil Institute, Kings College London to celebrate the Granta Publication 
Join Granta Best Young Brazilian Novelists Michel Laub and Tatiana Salem Levy, translator Stefan Tobler and Granta deputy editor Ellah Allfrey for readings and conversation about the next generation of Brazilian literature and its debut in the English-speaking world. 
Date: Monday 12 November
Time: 18:30
Location: The Pyramid Room, 4th Floor King's Building, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS
FREE to attend. Wine and nibbles.





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