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From there, pursuing a degree in Languages and Literature and writing her own books was a natural path. In 2012, she published Bibliotecas do Mundo <\/em>[Libraries of the World], which won the Malba Tahan Prize from the National Foundation for Children\u2019s and Young People\u2019s Books (FNLIJ) and was adapted into a stage play produced by Sapoti, a company Chindler founded in the early 2000s. The play is occasionally restaged, especially in venues such as public schools in Rio. Chindler is now seeking a new home for the work, which will be reissued and updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of this month, on Saturday the 28th<\/sup>, she will relaunch Onde moram os livros? Bibliotecas do Brasil <\/em>[Where Do Books Live? Libraries of Brazil] at Livraria Janela, in Laranjeiras, Rio. Originally published in 2017, it returns in a new, updated edition with contributions from six illustrators (five of them women). \u201cI carried out a historical revision from a decolonial perspective, and in this version, we included a library that doesn\u2019t even exist yet, the Library of Knowledge.\u201d It will be built in the area where Terreir\u00e3o do Samba operates, near the Zumbi dos Palmares monument, and integrated into initiatives in the Pequena \u00c1frica region of Rio. The project is by Di\u00e9b\u00e9do Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9, an architect from Burkina Faso and the only African to have received the Pritzker Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When it was released in 2017, the book was distributed free of charge to 2,500 students in the municipal public school system of Rio de Janeiro. The text, like that of Bibliotecas do mundo<\/em>, was adapted for theater in a play staged in three states: Rio de Janeiro, Maranh\u00e3o, and Par\u00e1. Among the Brazilian libraries featured in the work are the M\u00e1rio de Andrade Library in S\u00e3o Paulo and, of course, the grand National Library in Rio\u2014where the book was launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While in Bibliotecas do Brasil <\/em>there is one that does not yet exist, in Bibliotecas do mundo<\/em> there is one that no longer exists. Chindler chose seven libraries around the world to feature in her book, including the historic Library of Alexandria. \u201cI do a lot of research to write my books, and for this one I really went deep. On Alexandria, I studied extensively to bring in some historical (libraries) that weren\u2019t very well known,\u201d the author says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What interested me here was less the building\u2019s architecture or the history itself, and more the fact that the books were saved by a woman, Alia Muhammad.<\/p>Daniela Chindler<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Library of Alexandria was, for centuries, the cultural center of the world. It brought together scholars from many places. It housed shelves of papyrus scrolls and the first codices,\u201d she says. Destroyed in the 7th<\/sup> century AD, it held one million papyrus scrolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Iraq, she brings the story of the Basra Library, destroyed during the 2003 war. \u201cWhat interested me here was less the building\u2019s architecture or the history itself, and more the fact that the books were saved by a woman, Alia Muhammad, who rescued 30,000 books,\u201d Chindler says. After the war, the library was rebuilt, and the books sheltered by the staff member during the conflict once again had a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chindler enjoys large-scale undertakings\u2014and not only those she writes and publishes (she has more than ten books to her name). At Sapoti, she also designs visits to museums and cultural spaces, always in a fun and interactive way. The curation and script for the guided tours\u2014what she calls \u201ctheatricalized visits\u201d\u2014at the Petit Trianon, headquarters of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, was her first historical research project and ran for 15 years. \u201cThe project was created for the ABL\u2019s centennial celebrations (1997), and I was invited by writer N\u00e9lida Pi\u00f1on, who was the institution\u2019s president, the first woman to hold the position,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year, she continues with a theatricalized tour of the iconic Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, in which actors retell the city\u2019s history in the early 20th<\/sup> century\u2014the theater opened in 1909\u2014as well as projects at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB). Chindler has also led dozens of reading promotion initiatives, including \u201cStories Beyond Walls,\u201d aimed at women deprived of liberty, in place since August 2021 (a project developed with funding from the Federal Cultural Incentive Law\u2014Rouanet Law).<\/p>\n\n\n\n For someone who started in a small garage and has taken reading even into prisons, there is no shortage of stories to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check it out: Report by D\u00e9bora Rubin, in collaboration with ANBA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\nEgypt and Iraq<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sapoti Projetos website<\/a>
Sapoti Instagram<\/a>
Sapoti YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n