MARINA MIYAZAKI
Marina is a writer from Londrina/PR, she discovered dyslexia as an adult, after her children came along. They ended up bringing her dyslexia to the surface, when children pointed out their differences. She always wrote, but it took her a while to get her texts out of the drawer. She enjoys writing for children and giving visibility to issues involving emotional and social vulnerability.
2020
DYSLEXICATING
Dislexicando (2015) is a children's book written with common misspellings made by people with dyslexia. In other words, a book with Portuguese “mistakes”. It is the report of a girl who questions the way specialists treat children with dyslexia. The book was illustrated by Tony de Marco, a typedesigner who also has dyslexia.
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Luisa Venturelli
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LITERATURE
2021
THE FEAR OF A TAUGHT
"Fear is to lose or to understand?", a phrase in the epigraph of the book "The fear of the stuck tail" (Ed. Scipione), by Marina Miyazaki, brings an essential question when you think about a full education, that trains the citizens to be able to dialogue with society and themselves. Losing a fear can mean a victory over it, but understanding it may be the most important thing, because it demands a comprehension of something that, by being different, creates doubts and can paralyze. The illustrations by Gilmar Machado (@cartunista_das_cavernas) contribute decisively so the questions proposed by the text can gain new and multiple dimensions. After all, as the author says, her writing realizes itself "as an aid to dyslexia, puting crooked, right, wrong, invented and disconnected words (the editor must figure it out) in texts for children that transform into art in the hands of the illustrator, the animators and editors.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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LITERATURE
2022
SENTIMENTARY
Coming up from the text " Palavras, Perfumes e Sentimentos" (Words, Perfumes and Feelings), in which the author deals with words in a playful and distinguished manner, there is workshop and the animation short movie "Sentimentário", awarded in many cinema festivals and produced and directed by graduated students from the Cinema course from Federal University of Pelotas.
The great teaching is found in bringing to discussion that the sense of vocables is way larger than the one found in the tradicional dictionary. The emotional value of each of them, both for children and as an emotional memory from adults, can't be ignored or
erased. It needs to be constantly valued.
Installing a personal feelings dictionary is an essential poetic step, especially to establish a creative and sensible knowledge about the world.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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LITERATURE
2023
FATHER FRANCISCO
Non-traditional relationships between parents and children have little place in the arts. This book focuses on the affection between a child and his incarcerated father. It is a dive between links different from those crystallized by society. There is a reflection on how roles stereotyped by society and the media gain new dimensions when the situation deviates from the conventional. The challenges are multiple, the pains are different and the manifestations of affection gain new dimensions, many of them surprising, as they deal with voids, needs and the capability of the imagination to overcome distances and fill gaps.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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LITERATURE
MARINA
by herself
I didn't even know I had dyslexia before.
After I found out and admitted it, I still made a blog and profiles on social networks anonymously. Everything to be free, to be able to write the way and about what I wanted.
After overcoming this phase, I manage to publish Dyslexicando, a book with “errors” without corrections, criticizing and deconstructing everything that has been said to date about dyslexia.
It was liberating! Currently, I relate reasonably well with my dyslexia, I learned to use it to my advantage.