Mariana Salomão Carrara

She was born in São Paulo in 1985. She is the author of Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Fairies and glasses in the corner of the house), Se deus me chamar não vou (If God calls me, I will not go) - finalist of the Jabuti Prize 2020, and É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém (It is always the time of our death amen). With Não fossem as sílabas do sábado (If it weren't for the Saturday syllables), she won the 2023 São Paulo Prize for Literature, in the category of best novel.

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São Paulo Prize for Literature

Lucrecia Zappi

(Argentina, 1972)

Brazilian writer, journalist and translator. Her childhood and adolescence were spent between São Paulo and Mexico City.
She is the author of three novels:  Onça Preta (Benvira, 2013), Acre (Todavía, 2017) and Degelo (Todavía, 2023) -, translated into Spanish (La Huerta Grande, Spain). Acre was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the novel category, the most prestigious in Brazil.
With his first book, Mil-folhas (Cosac Naify, 2009), a gastronomic journey through the history of sweets, won the Bologna Ragazzi International Prize in 2011. 
She studied visual arts at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Back in Brazil, she worked for Folha de S. Paulo for years, covering mainly contemporary art topics. She currently writes a monthly column for this newspaper. 
She lives in New York, where she earned a master's degree in creative writing at New York University. She is working on her fourth novel.

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Latin America Viva

Pierre André Ruprecht

(Brazil)

He is an administrator, was a professor of communication research methodology, worked in the area of multimedia and training, was the general coordinator of consulting at the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo, Brazil, and planning director in companies and projects in the cultural area. He was a finalist in 2019 and 2020 of the Governor of the Arts Award of the State of São Paulo in the category Books, Reading and Libraries. From 2011 to 2024, he was the executive director of SP Leituras, a social organization focused on reading, libraries, culture and knowledge. The institution is responsible for managing the Secretariat of Culture, Economy and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo, the São Paulo Library, the Parque Villa-Lobos Library, the BibliON - the free digital library of São Paulo, and the actions of the São Paulo State Library System.