Tag: books

By Advertising Reading, Brazil Is Trying to Sell Meat to Vegetarians

Finally, a Brazilian administration has perceived that it must promote reading in Brazil with ...

Moacyr Scliar Once Again Is Brazil’s Best Fictionist of the Year

The winners of the Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious literary award had their party this ...

Brazil’s E-Commerce Jumps 27%. US$ 2.5 Billion Sold in First Half

Brazil's electronic commerce grew 27% in the first half, compared with the same period ...

Brazil’s Lack of Nobels Has No Genetic Basis. Blame It On a Faulty Education

Oscar Niemeyer, Adib Domingos Jatene, Ivo Pitanguy are the exceptions. Very rare are our ...

Brazil’s Major Bookstore Chain Gobbles Up Competition

Saraiva, a major Brazilian bookstore chain, has bought Siciliano, its competitor, for 60 million ...

The US Is on the Expansion Plans of Brazil’s Nobel Bookstore

Livraria Nobel, which calls itself the largest chain of bookshops in Brazil, plans to ...

A project to bring books to a Brazilian favela

Our Own Minimally Invasive Library Thrives in a Brazilian Favela

The idea originated from an article read during the time I was taking an ...

Brazil Spends Over US$ 400,000 in Books by Indian Authors

Brazil’s Ministry of Education (MEC) allocated US$ 414,000 (1 million reais) from the Literate ...

Brazil Sends Books to East Timor to Promote Portuguese

The rural libraries program Arca das Letras (Chest of Letters) developed by the Brazilian ...

Library Program Represents Brazil at Cuba’s Book Fair

The Rural Libraries program, Book Chest, run by Brazil’s Ministry of Agrarian Development’s (MDA) ...

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