Her first book, Near to the Wild Heart, was translated from Portuguese into Arabic by Safa Jubran. Lispector is one of the greatest names of Brazil’s 20th-century literature. Official launch took place in the Guimarães Rosa Institute in Beirut.
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Scholar, writer and poet Leonardo Tonus will participate in events celebrating the Portuguese language next week in the capital city of Tunisia.
The academic, writer, and poet has been a professor for 20 years at Sorbonne in Paris and dedicates to researching and disseminating the similarities between migratory flows, including Arabs in Brazil.
The Brazil pavilion store at the world exhibition sells works by Brazilian women, mainly expatriates living in the UAE. They will hold an autograph session on February 26 and 27.
Publishing house Dublinense has recently sold three books by Brazilian authors to two Arab publishers. One of them will be translated into Persian.
During five days of classes, author Socorro Acioli will lecture for a group of Brazilian women living in Dubai. The workshop will occur from October 24 to 28.
The Lebanese-descendant writer launched earlier this year her new novel “Elas marchavam sob o sol” [They marched under the sun]. The writer was a finalist of the Jabuti Award 2018 and won São Paulo Prize for Literature with her previous novel.
An online meeting hosted by the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center and Gepom will see researcher Muna Omran give a presentation, followed by a conversation with viewers, about how the Arab diaspora is featured in books by major Brazilian authors.
An Arabic version featuring texts by 12 contemporary authors, including upcomer Marcelo Maluf and household name Milton Hatoum, will be introduced at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The Arab Chamber is a partner for the project.
The Brazilian writer’s ‘A Hora da Estrela’ (The Hour of the Star) is in bookstores of major cities in Arab countries, such as Cairo, Dubai and Beirut. Egyptian researcher Maged ElGebaly translated the book into Arabic.
