Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, Edward Hirsch in Brazil

EDWARD HIRSCH will be teaching at the creative writing workshop in Brazil from July 9-16, 2007.
EDWARD HIRSCH will be teaching at the creative writing workshop in
Brazil from July 9-16, 2007. Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, Alan Pauls e
Rodrigo Fresan, and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams &
Amores Peros) are headlining FLIP this year. Sign-up now and get a 30%
discount on tuition.

Participate in a week-long poetry workshop with Edward Hirsch and a
translation class on Brazilian poets Carlos Drummond de Andrade and
Joao Cabral de Melo Neto. Discussions on Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil
and tours of important cultural sites and literary landmarks. Also,
casual get togethers with leading contemporary Brazilian poets,
editors, writers, translators, and publishers.

MORE INFORMATION AT http://www.creativewritingbrazil.org/

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Creative Writing Brazil is an unique literary workshop in Sao Paulo,
Brazil organized by Rattapallax magazine and Academia Interncional de
Cinema. The workshops are run by leading American and Brazilian poets,
writers and educators and conducted in English. The purpose of the
workshop is to experience the culture of Brazil and produce new and
complex literary work. Poets and writers who have participated in our
trips to Brazil include Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa,
Breytan Breytanbach, Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuna, Edwin Torres,
Nathalie Handal, and Poetry Wales editor Robert Minhinnick.

Edward Hirsch is a poet and critic. He has published six books of
poems: For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), which won
the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989),
Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), and Lay Back the Darkness
(2003). He has also written four prose books: How to Read a Poem and
Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), a national bestseller, Responsive
Reading (1999), The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of
Artistic Inspiration (2002), and Poet's Choice (2006). He is the
editor of Transforming Vision: Writers on Art (1994) and Theodore
Roethke's Selected Poems (2005). He is also the co-editor of A William
Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (2004). He has received
the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of
Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He
taught for eighteen years at the University of Houston, and is now the
fourth president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil. Lecture by Paulo Henriques Britto

Elizabeth Bishop lived in Brazil more or less continuously from 1951
to 1966 and then intermittently to 1971. The country functioned as a
necessary escape from the deprived and anxious world of her early
childhood. Creative Writing Brazil will have a discussion about
Bishop's life and work in Brazil. We can also assist you with your
travel plans to visit Elizabeth Bishop's house in Ouro Preto and other
noted Bishop landmarks in Brazil. Also, introduce you to renowned
Bishop scholars and translators of her work. Paulo Henriques Britto
was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. His third collection of poems,
Trovar Claro, received Brazil's equivalent of the National Book Award
from the Biblioteca Nacional, and his fourth book, Macau, won Brazil's
most prestigious award, the Portugal Telecom Prize. In 2005, he
published his first short story collection, Paraisos artificiais.
Britto is also one of Brazil's principle translators of British and
American literature, and received the National Library Foundation's
prize for his 1995 translation of E. L. Doctorow's The Waterworks. His
other translations include works by Henry James, V. S. Naipaul, Thomas
Pynchon, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop's poems about Brazil.
He currently teaches at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

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Translation Workshop

Translation class on Brazilian poets Carlos Drummond de Andrade and
Joao Cabral de Melo Neto lead by Flavia Rocha. Flavia Rocha is a
Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living in Brazil. In Sao
Paulo, she worked as a staff reporter for magazines Casa Vogue, Carta
Capital, Republica, Valor Economico and Bravo!. She has an M.F.A
program in Writing at Columbia University and is the editor of
Rattapallax magazine. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House
Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2004. Her
translations of contemporary American and Brazilian poets have
appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, Callaloo, Rattapallax, and
Poetry Wales.

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Tour of Sao Paulo & Salon Reading

Throughout the week, everyone will be having casual get togethers with
leading Brazilian poets, editors, writers, and publishers. An
important aspect of the workshop is an interaction between
participants and their contemporary counterparts in Brazil. You will
visit important cultural sites, bookstores, and literary landmarks.
All participants will have an opportunity to read at the Salons in Sao
Paulo and New York City. Also, Rattapallax magazine will assist with
the publication of the work produced during the workshops in literary
and online journals.

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Festa Literaria Internacional de Parati (FLIP)

Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, Alan Pauls e Rodrigo Fresan, and
screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams & Amores Peros) are
headlining FLIP this year.

FLIP is a leading and truly international literary jamborees, known
for the outstanding quality of its guest authors, for the overwhelming
enthusiasm of its audiences, and for the town's relaxed hospitality.
FLIP has continued to attract some of the world's finest authors
including Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis,
Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Michael Ondaatje, alongside living
Brazilian legends such as Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso. The
festival is held in Parati is a colonial sea-side town nestled between
the turquoise waters of Ilha Grande Bay and vast swathes of unspoilt
Atlantic rainforest. Only a few hours from Sao Paulo. Attend the
Creative Writing Workshop and FLIP! We plan to organize a trip to FLIP
and will help you with your travel plans to the festival. Must
register early because the festival sells out.