GRACILIANO RAMOS

Paulo Scott was born in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil. A former activist, he moved on to teach law at university in Porto Alegre for ten years and has had four books of fiction and four of poetry published. He translates from English, writes screenplays, hosts literary workshops, and writes for a number of magazines and newspapers. His first novel, Ainda orangotangos (Still Orang-utans, 2003), was adapted for film by director Gustavo Spolidoro and won the 13th Milano Film Festival, and his play Crucial dois um (Decisive two one) received the FUNARTE/Myriam Muniz de Teatro 2006 award.

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Gustavo Spolidoro

Gustavo SPOLIDORO (1972, Porto Alegre, Brazil) is partner in the production company Clube Silencio. He is also curator of the Porto Alegre Film Festival, CineEsquemaNovo. He has won dozens of awards, of which 14 for his short film Others.Veninhas/Candles (1998, short), TPD (1998, short), Outros/Others (2000, short), Amanha (2000, short), Final - Trilogia do Amor Em 16mm - Parte 1 (2001, short), Maré Vermelha/Red Tide (2001, short), Domingo/Sunday Birthday (2002, short), Volta, Gervásio!/Come Back, Gervásio! (2002, short) Início do fim/The Beginning of the End (2005, short), Pequenos Tormentos da Vida/Small Torments of Life (2006, short), Ainda orangotangos/Still Orangutans (2007)

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There is a sureness of style, a narrative vigor, among those writing in Brazil today that owes a great deal to Graciliano Ramos, a character involved with politics (he was even jailed for nearly a year for political reasons, an experience that led him to write his excellent, though unfinished, Memórias do cárcere, published after his death) as well as with journalistic affairs. He was born in Alagoas, one of the poorest states in northeastern Brazil, in 1892, when Brazil was still coming to terms with its recent incarnation as a republic; he was a voice that weighed in almost militantly against the dictates and privileges typical

of the power exercised in the country by certain select social groups, including those of which he was part. By the time Graciliano died in 1953, he left an oeuvre that included various novels, short stories, essays, memoirs, children's fiction, and, not least, several translations—among them Camus's The Plague.

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