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ABOUT THE PROJECT:

The I Concurso Literário Novas Leituras Curitibanas is a proposal that includes actions to encourage and promote literary writing in the city of Curitiba and its metropolitan region, activities to exchange experiences between artists, dissemination of local authors and/or texts not yet published, creation of material audiovisual and reading incentive. All online and with free access.

We launched a Literary Contest in February 2020 that chose 10 (ten) unpublished literary texts - in the genres short story, chronicle, dramaturgy or poetry - from which 10 performance readings on video were created by artists from the city of Curitiba, which were published and publicized through the Youtube channel “Nossas Leituras” and other social networks linked to the project.

The submitted texts were submitted to the evaluation of a commission formed by two curators whose research is limited to the area of contemporary literature. Are they:

AMINI:

He holds a degree in Letters, a BA in Translation Studies, from the Federal University of Paraná (2014) and a master's degree in Letters from the same institution (2017), with an emphasis on Literary Studies. She is currently a doctoral student at the Theory and Literary History Program at UNICAMP (CNPq scholarship) with research on the work of Jacques Derrida, literary translation and otherness. In 2011, he attended an academic exchange program at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, as a fellow of the AUGM program. Together with the poet Alexandre França, she edits Mathilda Revista Literária.

DIAMILA MEDEIROS

Diamila Medeiros has a PhD in Literary Studies from UFPR. She was a reading mediator at Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, in the Curitiba Lê program, between 2013 and 2015. Organizer of literary and academic events. He was a member of the Working Group that wrote the Municipal Plan for Books, Reading, Literature and Libraries in Curitiba. He has taught courses and workshops for training reading mediators since 2015. He has already been a member of the jury of the Luci Collin Contest of the UFPR Letters Week (stories) and of the UFPR Publisher of short stories and poetry.

 

The 10 (ten) works selected by them received a fee of R$ 700.00 referring to the authorization to use the text for the creation and broadcasting of the video-readings.

Contest curator: Diamila Medeiros and Iamni

Artistic Direction: Ali Freyer

Lives: Alexandre Gil França, Lucas Buchile and Luci Collin.

Selected Authors: Alexander Brasil, Dan Porto, Hugo Simões, Nará de Souza Oliveira, Patricia Cipriano, Paula Giannini, Ralf Faeda, Richard Roch, Wal Dal Molin, Yuri Amaury.

Cast: Caroline Marzani, Guilherme Mendes Muniz, Juliane Souto, Laysa Machado, Fabiane de Czaro, Flávia Imirene Sabino, Lígia Quirino, Lilyan de Souza, Lucas Mattana and Rafael Di Lari.

Audio Capture e  Video: Paulo Silveira

Lighting: Erica Mityko

Production Director: Rodrigo Hayalla

Production Assistant: Juliane Souto

Making-off: Lígia Quirino

Press Office: Mem & Mem Communication

Production and Editing: Penguin Productions

Produced by: Sou Productions

PROJECT CARRIED OUT WITH THE RESOURCES OF THE CULTURE SUPPORT AND INCENTIVE PROGRAM OF THE CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CURITIBA, MUNICIPAL CITY HALL OF CURITIBA AND MINISTRY OF TOURISM.

 

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Richard Roch (crédito - Bruna Oliveira).

RICHARD ROCH

Tale: Homemade support for Moto G on the Bike

Raised in the Fazendinha neighborhood, Richard Roch lives in Curitiba. Participates in the writing and reading workshop De Proprio Fist and has texts published in the independent journal RelevO. He is the author of the books Preto de alma preta (stories, Medusa publisher, 2020) and Marathonistas do Kenya (poetry, Urutau, press). The text Homemade support for Moto G on the bike had its first version written during the workshop Deus lives today in the mouth of ministries and what poetry has to do with it, taught by Julia Raiz (2020). Graduated in Journalism and Sociology, he works with specialty coffees.

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HUGO SIMÕES

Poem: I cast my arm in silence.

Hugo Simões is a poet and translator. Born in Guaíra, on the edge of the Pantanal, and based in Curitiba, he has published two poetry books, Pêsames (Dybbuk, 2016) and Perdão (Contravento, 2019), as well as translations in magazines and book chapters by authors such as Bertold Brecht. , Heinz Rudolf Unger, Nikolaus Lenau, Paul Celan and Stefan Zweig. He is also a doctoral student in Letters at PPGL/UFPR. He is currently dedicated to translating dramaturgical texts by Thomas Bernhard and Wolfgang Bauer, and poetic texts by Paul Celan and Tamara Kamenszain.

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DAN PORTO

Tale: The father or the income of death.

Dan Porto is a writer and teacher. Specialist in Arts, he is the spokesperson for “Transtexto”, creator of the projects “As Pessoas de Fernando” and “Julho Literário”. He has published the books Pequeno Manual do Vestibular (2009), Raridades (2011), Viver e Emprego a Viver (2014), Série Poética: Just it, Carménère, Xilema (2015), A cura da Aids (2017), in addition to individual texts. in specialized vehicles. Instagram: @danportoeu.

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WAL DAL MOLIN

Short story: Ruta Pix: a study of bath and power revelations.

Wal Dal Molin is a writer, collaborative lawyer and Pisces. She is devoted to the Holy Diffuse Sensitivity. She has already completed a master's degree in law and philosophy, wore a padded bra, ran for queen of the grape party (it could have been khaki) and climbed the building as if it were easy, only to disappear with her school schedule. He prefers the pen, hence why “the curve of the letter just like yours” is his first book.

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RALF FAEDA

Tale: Black Frost

Ralf Faeda – graduated in Social Communication - Publicity and Propaganda by FAO, and post-graduated in Theory of Literature at PUC-PR, passionate about literature in its most distinct aspects. Father of little Martin, he lives in Curitiba and sees in the history and culture of Paraná rich plots and hidden plots waiting for the words that immortalize them.

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ALEX BRAZIL

Story: Crossroads

Alexander Brasil was born in Curitiba, in 1997. He is a student of Letters at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and works with reading incentives in the Curitiba Lê Program, of the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba (FCC). Her short stories won first place in the Luci Collin Literary Contest in 2019 and 2020, promoted by the UFPR Letters Week. His first book will be published by Kotter, as one of the awards for the 2020 edition.

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CYPRIAN PATRICIA

Dramaturgy: a bomb inside the chest.

Patricia Cipriano - PUT FIRE IN THE BOILERS! Artist, cabaret, performer, SHOE, FEMINIST! Run the online content program sapatão @magazinefancha. Vocalist and composer of the post performance band @horrorosasdesprezíveis. Co-founder of @bifeseco, where she develops authorial dramaturgy works. Wild by nature, she found in the pink house (@selvaticaoficial) an address for cabaret and variety creations. The Political Cabaret as a language and tool of artistic expression is part of the creation process. Art/life inseparable in constant process!

yuri foto (crédito Rafaella Sepullveda).

YURI AMAURY

Poem: A body for Kalki

Yuri Amaury (Curitiba, 1991) is a doctoral student in Literary Studies at UFPR and author of Agáloco|Transviscerações (Urutau, 2020). He has poems in the magazines Postfácio, Literatura e Fechadura, Ruído Manifesto and Mallarmargens, and received second place in the Off-Flip Literature Prize 2020 in the Poetry category. As a translator, he translated poems by Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth and John Kinsella for the Escamandro blog, the Pontes Outros, Belas Infiéis Magazine and Zunái Magazine.

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PAULA GIANNINI

Tale: The cruel way in which cockroaches are exterminated.

Paula Giannini is a writer, actress and cultural producer. It transits in several universes, with texts for children and adults. In 2017, he released Pequenas Mortes Cotidianas (Eight and a Half Ed). The book was a finalist for the Guarulhos and Oceanos Literature Awards. In the same year (Ed. Bambolê), he launched If this street were mine – Playing show, an immense success selected for the PNLD Literary 2018 and for the Bologna Catalog, representing Brazil at the largest fair of its kind in the world. In 2019, he deserved the CCSP Small Format Dramaturgy Award for his text De Esperança, Sweat and
flour. He currently writes for the Blogs As Contistas e Os Imaginários

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NARÁ SOUZA OLIVEIRA

Dramaturgy: In the station.

Nará Souza Oliveira, retired teacher and writer, was born in Rio das Flores, RJ, and has lived in Paraná since 1962. She was the director of the first Quilombola State College in Paraná, in the Joao Surá quilombo, in Adrianópolis. He was part of the Working Group Clóvis Moura. In children's literature he published: Curumim - by the city of Piraquara; Clay pot and wooden spoon - Mazza edi.; Leia, the girl whose name is in the flower- Flamingo. edi.. In 2019 he received the Oliveira Silveira Prize for Children's Literature and awaits the publication of the award-winning book.

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