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The land where everyone's a poet
Liz Calder celebrates Brazil's hidden talents
Liz Calder
Saturday 22 July 2000 22.53 BST
Unless you have been locked in a darkened cupboard since January, you can hardly have missed the explosion of Brazilian music, theatre, dance, art and film which has marked the celebrations for Brazil's 500 years of history as a nation. Yet among this torrent of creative energy there has been only one literary event. One of the reasons for this is that very few Brazilian books have been translated into English, while the impact of those that have is slight. Yet there is a storehouse of literary riches there; indeed, the country has produced some of the greatest writers of all time.