"I’m Still in the air", quips the writer and screenwriter Gisele Marabai, 36, soon after exiting the plane that took him to receive the Kindle Literature. This is the first edition of the award created by Amazon in a partnership with editora Nova Fronteira. The result, published this Tuesday (17), will give Gisele the opportunity to publish your book in a printed version later this year, in addition to bank up to R$ 20 thousand. To participate in the contest, the work should be unpublished, and published by Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), the tool of self-publishing from Amazon.
the state of Minas gerais Belo Horizonte, she stood out among the more than 2,000 submitted works, with the novel’s fictional "Farm gate", his first in this style. The previous are "Born to be Madonna" and "Warrior of Gaia", facing the public child and juvenile, and "Free Man: Around the World On a Bicycle", a story about the journey of her husband Danilo Perrotti Machado, who pedaled by 59 countries of the planet.
"Field" if it differs from these by being a fictional story is not recommended for children. The book is about a girl who learns to travel and discover ancient civilizations. The part is not fictional of the work is on account of the scenery and ruins that the author actually knew, and the junction which makes it solid the strongest longings of Gisele: write and travel.
"I always liked to travel very much, but this not only it was enough for me. I had to take advantage of all that was seeing in some way and, for me, literature and travel communicate a lot," he explains, citing as an example Guimarães Rosa and Clarice Lispector, the authors of the works are also inspired by travel, whether they are transcendental or cracked during the crossing.
With rich memories of various parts of the world, all it took was to reinvent the places where you’ve been. And of course, work very hard to achieve these aspirations, which does not seem to have been no sacrifice for the author. For writing, I am well disciplined. When I am with a story in your head, agreement, and, even before taking the coffee, I sit down to write. I like that, understand? I like this craft of me sit alone in front of the computer and write. When I’m absorbed in it, it is hard to go back to the real world after that," says belo-horizontina, based in São Paulo.
reverse Path. Often, the great works of world literature, migrate to the digital platform as more of an option of presenting themselves to the world. In the case of Gisele, it was the technology that opened the space to return to the literature in its archaic way: the role.
After you start the first few chapters of "Field" in the workshop of a literary writer from pernambuco, Marcelino Freire, where lapidou the language, second sets, and finish the book, She has not had a good response from publishers. "I had a lot of affection and very careful with it. And once completed, after six months of dedication, I went after the publishers. But in all that I looked or I had no answer, or the book was rejected", she recalls.
Now, with the prize in hand – and the reference as the first author to win the award – the work of Gisele can no longer be ignored.
In the coming months, it will be possible to find "Field" of the classic, in the bookstores, published by the New Border.
"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." Daniele Cajueiro, editorial director of the New Border
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