Alexandre Alliatti

(Brazil, 1982)

He is a writer and journalist. With the book Tinta Branca, he won the 2023 São Paulo Prize for Literature in the “best debut novel" category and was a finalist for the 2023 Jabuti Prize in the debut writer category. He graduated in journalism from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he also studied literature. He has a postgraduate degree from the Vera Cruz Institute, in São Paulo, in the writers training course. As a journalist, he worked for 16 years at Rede Globo and also collaborated in media such as Piauí Magazine and the Jornal O Globo. He was born in Curitiba in 1982 and currently lives in Porto Alegre.

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São Paulo Prize for Literature

Rita Carelli

(Brazil, 1984) 

She is a writer and illustrator, as well as an actress and filmmaker. In 2018, she created, in collaboration with the NGO Vídeo nas Aldeias, the collection Um Dia na Aldeia (Sesi). Her books Akukusia (Sesi) and Minha Família Enauenê (FTD) received the international White Ravens seal from the Munich Library and Highly Recommended by the National Children's and Youth Book Foundation (FNLIJ). The latter was a semifinalist of the Jabuti Prize, and voted best children's book by the Association of Writers of Children's and Youth Books in 2019. In 2021 she published the illustrated book Amor, o Coelho (Caixote) and the novel, Terrapreta, (Editora 34), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature in the first novel category, and of the Lessa Origins Prize, of the FNLIJ.
She is the director and screenwriter of the short films Hospedeira (2014) and of the documentaries made with the indigenous people enawenê nawê The Era of Lareokotô (2018) and Yaõkwa, image and memory (2020). The latter, made in collaboration with Vincent Carelli, was the winner of the É Tudo Verdade - International Documentary Festival in the Brazilian short film category and the Canal Brasil Acquisition Award in 2021 and the Grand Prize of Brazilian Cinema in 2022. 
She is one of the idealizers of the book Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (2019) and signs the research and organization of A vida não é útil (2020) and Futuro Ancestral (2022), the three by the indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak (Companhia das Letras). In 2022 she published the children's book Menina Mandioca (Mini Pallas), in 2023 O Caminho para a Casa de Barro (Baião) in collaboration with the indigenous artist Xadalu, and in 2024 Kuján e os meninos sabidos, with Ailton Krenak.
She is currently working on her second book, O Mundo Fora da Pedra.

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São Paulo Prize for Literature
Trans-American Bridges – Traditional Communities and Literature

Amanda Julieta

Amanda Julieta is a writer, journalist and literary researcher. She has a degree in social communication with a specialization in journalism from the Jorge Amado University Center; with a master's degree and a doctorate from the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She is the author of the book Dandara (Paralelo13S, 2020), winner of the Pretas Potências Prize (2023) in the category literature; Tem poeta na casa? Mulheres negras, poetry slam and insurgências (Is there a poet at home? Black women, slam poetry and insurgencies) (Paralelo13S, 2023) and participates in the collection of short stories Abrindo a boca, mostrando línguas (Opening his mouth, showing tongues, Paralelo13S, 2021).

She published the LGBTQIAPN+-themed short story “Apocalipse" in Revista Manifesto (2023). As a literary researcher she published essays in the books Leituras de Etnicidades (Segundo Selo, 2022) and Literatura y contemporaneidad: estudios de literatura afrobrasileña y africana en Brasil (Schreiben, 2023), in addition to the article “Minha arma-palavra:  el activismo intelectual de las mujeres negras en el slam de poesía”, in Revell magazine (UEMS, 2021).

She has participated in several literary festivals as a guest writer, such as Mostra Literária de Salvador (2021), MoLiD Molidê – Mostra Literatura com Dendê – Mostra Literatura com Dendê (2021), Festa Literária Arte e Identidade (2022), Odu Xirê de Artes Negras (2022), Festa Literária Internacional do Pelourinho – Flipelô (2022, 2023), International Literary Festival of Cachoeira – Flica ( 2022), Casa Insubmissa de Mulheres Negras (2022), Literary Festival of Lençóis – Flilençóis (2023), International Literary Festival of Praia do Forte -FLIPF (2024).

She also presented works at different academic congresses and seminars: IV International Seminar Undoing Gender (2019), UFBA Research, Teaching and Extension Congress (2019, 2021, 2022), Student Seminar on Research in Letters (2020, 2021, 2022), ABRALIC International Meeting: shared/shared worlds (2022), among others.

Giovanna SantAna

Master's Degree in Information Management and specialization in Project Management, Customer Service and Cultural Management. Since 2008 she has been managing public culture policies and literary, educational and socio-cultural programs in the third sector. She is currently the technical superintendent of SP Leituras, a social organization associated with the Secretariat of Culture, Economy and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, to manage the São Paulo Library, the Villa-Lobos Park Library, the BibliON, the São Paulo State Library System, and the cultural actions of the São Paulo Prize of Literature.

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São Paulo Prize for Literature