{"id":199504,"date":"2018-08-17T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=199504"},"modified":"2018-08-20T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:51:24","slug":"dubai-rhymes-brazilian-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/dubai-rhymes-brazilian-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"From Dubai, the rhymes of a Brazilian poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian poet Wiana Aguiar has launched this month the book \u201cPepa & Keca \u2013 Quem viu rimas por a\u00ed?\u201d (loosely translated here as Pepa & Keca \u2013 Has Anyone Seen Rhymes Around Here?), which she wrote in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Born in the state of Cear\u00e1, graduated in Tourism, she currently lives in the UAE with her family and many of the poems she wrote bring up her universe in the Arab country. \u201cThe book has a strong relation with Dubai, it was written there,\u201d she told ANBA via email.<\/p>\n

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The childhood of her daughters inspired the author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wiana\u2019s garden in the house she shares with her husband and two daughters, for instance, was the inspiration for the poem \u201cFrom My Room\u2019s Windows\u201d, which describes the flights and noises of a butterfly. The poem \u201cCamel\u201d was written after a bike ride that the author took with her husband through the bike lanes of Al Qudra, which crosses the desert. \u201cA magnificent place, where the sound of the wind is the silence and the sand dunes\u2019 colors are fascinating,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Wiana is the mother of Pietra, 11 years old, and 6-year-old Carla, whose nicknames, Pepa and Keca, respectively, give the book its name. The author began to write the book, with no publishing plans in mind, when the teacher of her youngest asked her to take a picture of her daughter playing with water and to write a text on the subject. She then realized she was writing a poem.<\/p>\n

Later, the Brazilian author began to write poems randomly about her daughters\u2019 daily lives and would ask them to illustrate them with their drawings. Before that, when she was pregnant of her first daughter and lived in Bahrain, Wiana had written what become later the book\u2019s first poem. Already in Dubai, with her daughters at school, she realized that she had written 30 poems and was encouraged and received help by the mother of a friend of one of her daughters, Patr\u00edcia Farias, to publish the material.<\/p>\n

The book was launched in Brazil by AME Editorinha. The author says that the book talks about herself as a kid, inspired by Pepa\u2019s and Keca\u2019s childhood. \u201cIt talks about nature, animals, portrays the richness of the simplicity of the moments and persons that mark childhood. It\u2019s the viewpoint of a mother expressing itself,\u201d explains Wiana.<\/p>\n

Wiana was born in Frecheirinha, a town without a hospital. She was brought to the world by a midwife in the seventh month of the pregnancy. Wiana\u2019s father worked carrying people and cargo in a Volkswagen Kombi, and her mother would stay at home to take care of her. The money was short at that time. When she was four years old, the family moved to Santar\u00e9m, state of Par\u00e1, in search of a better life, and her dad went to work in retail. \u201cI\u2019m the oldest daughter of five siblings and we would be messing and pranking all the time,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Wiana is a Tourism and Marketing graduate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She graduated in Tourism at Fortaleza University and moved to S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, 92 km from S\u00e3o Paulo, and later to Montreal, Canada, where she learned French and English and took a specialization course in Marketing and Tourism at Concordia University.<\/p>\n

Back in Brazil, the author married a Brazilian man and moved with him to the Middle East, more specifically, in Bahrain, in the first four years, and in Dubai in the next ten, where she\u2019s still living. \u201cThe standard of living in Dubai is excellent, the city is cosmopolitan, safe and the people are friendly. I really like the calm lifestyle that Dubai offers,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The book \u201cPepa & Keca \u2013 Quem viu rimas por a\u00ed?\u201d is Wiana Aguiar\u2019s first and was published only in Portuguese. However, she\u2019s planning to translate it to other languages: English, Arabic and Spanish. She launched the book in Goi\u00e2nia, the capital of Goi\u00e1s, and will do so in Fortaleza, this Saturday (18), at Ler Livraria, at Viasul mall, 5 pm. She wishes to launch it in Dubai, in October, and in other Brazilian cities, such as Rio de Janeiro, S\u00e3o Paulo and Santar\u00e9m, next year.<\/p>\n

In Dubai, Wiana works with digital communications for Emirates Airline and as a freelance, writing content to websites and translating. In Brazil, the writer worked in cultural exchange agencies and as a flight attendant at TAM. As soon as she moved to Dubai, her first work was at Dnata, a subsidiary of Emirates.<\/p>\n

According to information released by the author, half of the money of each purchased book will go to the foreign aid organization Fraternidade Sem Fronteiras (Fraternity Without Borders), which aids orphans from Africa.<\/p>\n

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Quick info: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Pepa & Keca \u2013 Quem viu rimas por a\u00ed? (Pepa & Keca \u2013 Has Anyone Seen Rhymes Around Here?)<\/p>\n

Author: Wiana Aguiar
\nIllustration: Ana Souza
\nPages 56
\nPublishing House: AME Editorinha
\nCost: BRL 30<\/p>\n

Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/div>\n
Reprodu\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>\n
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