the RIVER – it Was a long gestation literary, crossed by the birth of two babies. The writer and screenwriter mining Gisele Mirabai, 36-year-old, based in São Paulo, began to write the novel "Field" in 2009. In the first year, took the chapters of the book to the workshop which was with the writer Marcelino Freire. In the following, she won a scholarship of literary creation of Funarte, had two children and waited for the work to be read and, with luck, adopted by a major publisher. Without success, "Field" was in the drawer. Until now. The novel was the winner of the Prize Kindle to Literature and will be published by editora Nova Fronteira in the first half. Additionally, Gisele will receive R$ 20 thousand.
The announcement was made yesterday, at the Confeitaria Colombo, in Rio, in the presence of the other two finalists for the award — Leon Idris Azevedo, author of "My shadow lies there', and Edson Soares, "The last steps of the hanged man'. To participate in the contest, the work should be unpublished, and published by Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), the tool of self-publishing from Amazon. Gisele account that has not had any experience with self-publishing and remembered the saga of his first book, the child and juvenile "Warriors of Gaia" (published by Zeus).
— many years Ago, when I published "Warriors of Gaia", I was told that the book would not sell or would be adopted in the schools because it had girls as the main characters. But this was not true. Now, I have an award-winning book with a protagonist of the woman, with a plot that goes by the sexuality and the spirituality of it, ” said the writer who, very moved, thanked the family and friends who have read the original.
PRAISE FOR ACADEMIC
In the novel, Farming is a woman who spent her childhood on a farm in Minas Gerais, fascinated by the stories of ancient civilizations. As an adult, the protagonist leads a life of reckless in London and begins a journey through the countries that have hosted the ancient people to reconnect with the story itself. The poet and scholar Geraldo Carneiro, who took part of the jury along with also the academic Carlos Heitor Cony, and the editorial staff of the New Frontier, wrote about "Field": "Here, a strong writer, birthing the world". Sheep and Cony could not attend the awards.
Gisele disputed the prize with more than 2 thousand works of 1,7 thousand writers from all brazilian states. Ricardo Garrido, general manager of content acquisition for Amazon’s Kindle.with.br said that 33 of those enrolled were between one hundred e-books sold throughout the registration period, from September to November of last year. Of these, four titles have occupied the leadership at some point. Garrido has ensured that readers and authors can expect a second edition of the award.
Gisele disputed the prize with more than 2 thousand works of 1,7 thousand writers from all brazilian states. Ricardo Garrido, general manager of content acquisition for Amazon’s Kindle.with.br said that 33 of those enrolled were between one hundred e-books sold throughout the registration period, from September to November of last year. Of these, four titles have occupied the leadership at some point. Garrido has ensured that readers and authors can expect a second edition of the award.
as for Daniele Cajueiro, editorial director of the New Frontier, signaled that the publication of the novel Gisele is the first step for new investments of the home in the literature on contemporary brazilian. In recent years, the publishing house dedicated to the re-edit works of classical brazilian and foreign, such as Machado de Assis, Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir and Guimarães Rosa:
— After we devote ourselves to the classics in recent years, the contest was a great opportunity to immerse yourself in the production of our time. It was a dense, breath, which can bring new authors to our catalog.
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