Sun, Sand, And More Famous Writers Than You Can Shake A Mai-Tai At

This week, a huge literary festival gets underway in, of all places, the sleepy tourist town of Parati, Brazil. The festival, which aims to promote Brazilian literature to the world, was organize by Liz Calder, a London editor who has been vacationing in Parati for a decade. Certainly, the resort atmosphere is one of the big draws for the authors and intellectuals participating in the festival, but Calder insists that the event will raise the profile of Brazilian authors worldwide. Still, not everyone in Brazil’s literary world is happy, and some are claiming that Calder is only promoting the Brazilian authors whom her employer publishes.