FAZIO, Luiza

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2022 Spring Resident
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • South America
  • Brazil
Portuguese

Luíza FAZIO (screenwriting; fiction; Brazil) is the co-author of the screenplay for Sintonia (Netflix), the most-watched Brazilian TV series of 2019. Other recent work was on Invisible City (Netflix) and Verdict (Amazon Prime) and on a feature-length adaptation of the LGBTQIA-themed children’s book A Princesa e a costureira  [The Princess and the Seamstress], which won a script development grant from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. Her work is also included in the 2010 story collection O Laboratório do escritor [The Writer’s Lab], funded by the São Paulo State Department of Culture. She participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Happening Now

  • Najwan Darwish’s “A Violet Darkness” in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation from the Arabic, is the  Poem-a Day for 9/19/24.

  • Among the 2024 recipients of the Premio Argentores, given for “the best of the previous year’s authorial production” is Cynthia Edul, for her documentary play “El punto de costura.”

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

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