President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed his regret for Death of writer Marina Colasantioccurred on Tuesday (28). In social media posts, the president stated that “she has consolidated himself as one of the most important professionals in contemporary national literature.” He also said that Marina “built a literary work that captivated different generations of Brazilians of all ages.”
The Ministry of Culture also expressed its solidarity to the family and friends of Marina and the entire cultural community. The ministry’s note says that she “built a diversified trajectory in Brazilian literature, being recognized for her sensitivity and innovation.”
The text also emphasizes the author’s “multifaceted career”: “In addition to being a consecrated writer, Marina acted as a journalist in vehicles such as Jornal do Brasil and Editora Abril, being a reference in chronicles, columns and texts that addressed essential topics such as art, citizenship, feminism and love. His books, which include poetry, tales and children’s literature, were also marked by their own art as an illustrator, expanding the reach and beauty of their narratives. ”
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Marina’s death was also lamented by several writers. “In addition to being very talented and intelligent, beautiful and very polite, Marina was a person of rare existential courage, hard to find. All Brazilian women owe it a lot to her, the pioneering and lucid role she played in our journalism, the example of life she gave us, the unique quality of the works of art she created with her texts and traits, for all ages “declared the Immortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters Ana Maria Machado.
Also immortal Rosiska Darcy classified Marina as one of the greatest writers of the Portuguese language: “But she was not just a writer, Marina was illustrator of the books themselves, painter, lady of pieces and colors, as was the words.” “Marina had a beautiful life, a brave woman who was an example for many young people Brazilian her readers and also for her friends like me, for example,” added Rosiska.
The Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Mother published on his social networks that Marina “taught the most sincere beauty”. “A human greatness that made everyone around tremble with tenderness. So sad the news of their departure. So important your work, your testimony, your memory. Thank you, dear Marina. Thank you,” he wrote.
Marina Colasanti was born in the city of Asmara, then Erythréia’s capital, and emigrated to Brazil along with her family in the 1940s. She was 87 years old and wrote over 70 books, including short stories, chronicles, poetry and children’s works. In addition to being a writer and journalist, he served as television host and translator. His funeral will be held at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts School, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, on the morning of Wednesday, in a ceremony restricted to family and friends.
