Marina Colasanti she is a Brazilian writer. She was born on September 26, 1937, in the city of Asmara, Eritrea. Later, she moved to Brazil, where she studied at the National School of Fine Arts, wrote texts for some periodicals and worked as an interviewer and presenter of television programs.
The author is a columnist, essayist, poet, short story writer, in addition to writing successful books for children and young people. His works are characterized by the presence of female protagonists, fantastic realism, social criticism and elements related to fairy tales. With a successful literary career, Colasanti has received several literary awards.
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Topics of this article
- 1 - Summary about Marina Colasanti
- 2 - Biography of Marina Colasanti
- 3 - Marina Colasanti Awards
- 4 - Characteristics of Marina Colasanti's work
- 5 - Works by Marina Colasanti
- 6 - Poems by Marina Colasanti
- 7 - Quotes by Marina Colasanti
Summary about Marina Colasanti
Brazilian author Marina Colasanti was born in 1937.
In addition to being a writer, she was also a TV presenter and interviewer.
Your works are part of Brazilian literature contemporary.
Her texts feature female protagonism and fantastic elements.
She is the author of short stories, chronicles, essays, poetry and children's works.
Biography of Marina Colasanti
Marina Colasanti was born on September 26, 1937 in Asmara, Eritrea. Three years later, she and her family moved to Italy. There they witnessed the last years of World War II. But, in 1948, they decided to live in Brazil, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, the writer she has dual nationality: Brazilian and Italian.
From 1952 to 1956, she studied at the National School of Fine Arts. She started working at Jornal do Brasil, in 1962. There, she was a writer, columnist, illustrator, as well as editor of Caderno Infantil. In 1968, she published her first book, Me alone. In 1971, she married fellow writer Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna.
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In the year 1974, she presented the news First hand, from TV Rio. Two years later, she hosted the show The Magicians, from Tevê Educativa, and also became editor of the magazine New. In 1986, she was a columnist for the magazine Headline. Between 1985 and 1988, she hosted the show Strong Saturday, from TVE.
In the early 1990s, she was an interviewer for the programs indiscreet sex, from TV Rio, Eye for an eye, from TV Tupi, and images from italy, from TVE. From there to here, published several works, received many awards and participated in several literary events in Brazil and abroad.
Marina Colasanti Awards
FNLIJ (1979)
APCA (1979)
FNLIJ (1982)
FNLIJ (1988)
FNLIJ (1989)
FNLIJ (1990)
FNLIJ (1991)
FNLIJ (1993)
Tortoise (1993)
Latin American Short Stories Contest for Children (1994) — Costa Rica
Tortoise (1994)
FNLIJ (1994)
Norm-Fundalecture (1996) — Colombia
Tortoise (1997)
FNLIJ (1998)
best of the year (1998) — Venezuela
Origins Lessa (2001)
Monteiro Lobato (2002)
Origins Lessa (2003)
IBBY Honor List (2004) — Switzerland
FNLIJ (2004)
Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana (2005) — Italy
Odylo Costa Filho (2008)
Alphonsus de Guimaraes (2009)
best of the year (2010) — Venezuela
Origins Lessa (2010)
Tortoise (2010)
Tortoise (2011)
FNLIJ (2013)
Ofélia Fontes (2014)
Tortoise (2014)
Origins Lessa (2015)
Monteiro Lobato (2015)
IBBY Honor List (2015) — Switzerland
Fundación Cuatrogatos (2016) — United States
SM Iberoamerican Award (2017)
Chair Seal (2017)
Features of Marina Colasanti's work
Marina Colasanti is a author of contemporary Brazilian literature. She wrote chronicles, short stories, poetry and children's literature. In general, her works have the following characteristics:
intertextuality;
mythological character;
female protagonism;
issues of the feminine universe;
everyday facts;
social and customs criticism;
lyricism;
fairy tale elements;
fantastic realism;
short sentences;
critique of individualism.
Works by Marina Colasanti
Me alone (1968) — chronicles
the abode of being (1978) — short stories
An all blue idea (1979) — short stories
Twelve Kings and the Girl in the Labyrinth of the Wind (1982) — short stories
And speaking of love (1985) — essays
Ophelia the sheep (1989) — children's
public intimacy (1990) — essays
Collision course (1993) — poetry
Ana Z, where are you going? (1994) — juvenile
The wolf and the sheep in the girl's dream (1994) — children's
I know, but I shouldn't (1995) — chronicles
Far as I want (1997) — short stories
The leopard is a gentle animal. (1998) — short stories
open throats (1998) — poetry
An Ivory Thorn and Other Stories (1999) — short stories
the house of words (2000) — chronicles
This love from us all (2000) — chronicles
Penelope sends her regards (2001) — short stories
A love without words (2001) — children's
friendship wags its tail (2002) — children's
the weaver girl (2004) — short stories
Frigates to distant lands (2004) — essays
23 stories of a traveler (2005) — short stories
A road by the river (2005) — children's
thin blood (2005) — poetry
The last lilies in the silk case (2006) — chronicles
my wonder island (2007) — children's
my aunt told me (2007) — children's
Poetry in 4 times (2008) — juvenile
I sure have love (2009) — short stories
From your broken heart (2009) — short stories
Between the sword and the rose (2009) — short stories
Every animal its whim (2009) — children's
passenger in transit (2009) — poetry
my alien war (2010) — autobiography
torn love stories (2010) — short stories
before becoming a giant (2010) — children's
classifieds and not so much (2010) — children's
How to make a horse (2012) — essays
the name of the morning (2012) — children's
Short story of a little love (2013) — children's
Time to feed snakes (2013) — short stories
like a love letter (2014) — short stories
More than 100 wonderful stories (2015) — short stories
When spring arrives (2017) — short stories
a friend forever (2017) — kids
Top rated and not so much (2019) — kids
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Poems by Marina Colasanti
At the poem “Out there, the night”, from the book Collision course |1|, the lyrical self (the voice that enunciates the poem) suggests that a woman can only be complete in the silence and solitude of the night. After all, it is when “the family sleeps” that she can surrender to silence, since “nobody demands her / nobody asks her / anything”:
It's when the family sleeps
— inert hands in the folds of the sheets
heavy the bodies under the living shroud —
that the woman exercises.
in the quiet house
where no one charges you
no one demands you
no one asks you
anything
walk at last queen
in the empty rooms
linger in the dark.
And bare feet
open the blouse
can surrender
placid
to silence.
no longer poem “Frutos e flores”, also from the book Collision course, the lyrical self is a woman, compared, by the beloved, to an apple. Thus, the characteristics of this apple are related to this woman. The final two lines suggest sexual penetration. However, the penis of the “beloved” is compared to a knife, which may suggest coldness and pain:
My beloved tells me
that I am like an apple
cut in half.
The seeds I have
it's really true.
And the symmetry of the curves.
I had a certain blush
on smooth skin
that I don't know
if i still have it.
But if in April it blooms
the apple tree
i made apple
and beyond mature
I still unfold
in white flowers
every time your knife
pierces me.
Quotes by Marina Colasanti
Next, we are going to read some phrases by Marina Colasanti, taken from her chronicles “Talking about love”, “There is no way to measure love”, “What a beautiful kiss!” and “The dark world”:
"Without love, you can't live either."
“There is no meter or measuring tape to measure happiness.”
“Love is seamless, it has no measure.”
“The diversity of desires cannot be ignored.”
"So life goes, between revolutionaries who like change, and conservatives who don't."
“We are getting too close to the edge of the cliff.”
Grades
|1| COLASANTI, Marina. Collision course. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1993.
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[1] Global Publishing Group (reproduction)
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