MINHA LÍNGUA, MINHA PÁTRIA

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Seven days, two cities, sixteen authors from Portugal, Brazil and Mozambique.

The literature festival held by the Eva Herz Institute and by Out of Paper brought 700 readers to the stores of Livraria Cultura in Salvador and the Iguatemi shopping centre in São Paulo. Nearly 18,000 watched the live broadcast or recording of talks. Around 138,000 were impacted on social networks.

SALVADOR, 10-12 NOVEMBER 2017

Photos: Taylla de Paula

““It’s not by chance that we chose Salvador to begin this edition of Minha Língua, Minha Pátria. It has been symbolic throughout our entire history. The first contact with the Portuguese language was in Bahia.””

— Correio da Bahia, 07 November 2017

“Festival curator Simone Duarte explained to Lusa that the gathering’s second edition aims to be a venue for sharing experiences and presenting works by Portuguese-speaking authors, with authors from three continents, bringing them closer to Brazilian readers.”

— Público, 09 November 2017

SÃO PAULO, 23-26 NOVEMBER 2017

Photos: Melissa Haidar

“Participants include Mozambican writer Mia Couto (photo), Amazonian Milton Hatoum and comic book artists Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, among other writers. Curator Simone Duarte talked about the line-up in an interview with RadioMetrópolis.
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— RadioMetrópolis, 23 November 2017

““Isabela and Bruno are children of returning Portuguese colonists, little known or unknown in Brazil, and switch between fiction and reality in a unique way. And Afonso Cruz is, for Mia Couto, one of the most creative voices of the new Portuguese-language literature,” says Simone about the Portuguese guests. ”

— Estadão, 23 November 2017