The 2020 Brazilian Literary Spring in the U.S.

The Printemps Littéraire Brésilien is part of a research and educational initiative that is also aims to promote Lusophone literatures around the World. This annual colloquium was originally idealized by professor Leonardo Tonus (Sorbonne Université) to promote and to expand the training of students in institutions of higher education. Since its inception in 2014, the event has become an important space for debates on Brazilian literature, fomenting new readings and enriching experiences around the Portuguese language.

In the 2020 U.S. edition, readings and panels will take place in several cities across the country between February 16^th and April 16^th. The event is organized in partnership with universities and cultural organizations: Columbia University, Brown University, Indiana University, University of New Mexico, University of Washighton, Oregon Center for Creative Research, among others.

The activities and events were organized by a committee with members from a variety of actors in the literary and publishing world (editors, writers, cultural promoters, educators and students of literature) in Brazil, Europe and the United States.

BIOS:

Leonardo Tonus is a professor of Brazilian Literature at the Department of Lusophone Studies at the Sorbonne University (France). He is a board member in a number of international publications in the area of Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Comparative Literature, with research work in the area of Immigration. In 2014, he was awarded by the French Government Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, and in 2015 Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts. In 2018 released his first collection of poems, Agora Vai Ser Assim and in 2019 Inquietações em tempos de insônia.

Flávia Rocha is the author of three poetry books published in Brazil: A Casa Azul ao Meio-Dia, Quartos Habitáveis and Um País. She has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. For 13 years, she’s was an editor for the multimedia literary magazine Rattapallax, based out of New York. She is also a screenwriter, and a founder of Academia Internacional de Cinema, a film school with branches in Sao Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and of the International Academy of Film & Arts, an online branch of the school in Portland, OR, where she currently lives.

Virna Teixeira was born in Brazil. She is a poet, translator and a doctor. She lives in London and runs a small press specialized in Brazilian poetry, Carnaval Press. She is also the editor of online poetry magazine Theodora (www.theodorazine.com). She has published several chapbooks and books of poetry in Latin America, Portugal and UK. Her last collection of poems, Suite 136, was inspired on her work in psychiatric hospitals in London.