The program Conversation with the Author that the MEC Radio broadcast this Sunday (19), at 12:30 pm, presents a unprecedented interview with writer Fernanda França de Oliveira. During the chat with journalist Katy Navarro, the guest talks about her most recent books and points out the difficulties her female characters face in gaining a voice in society today.
According to Fernanda, women today live conditioned to follow “little boxes” that were prepared like a script. The author highlights the “box” of mother, wife or person responsible for household chores, and the guilt that women end up carrying in life, even if they are not to blame.
In the book If it weren’t for this damn desire for freedomFernanda brings a human narrative about issues that afflict thousands of women in Brazil. Her books are not just fiction, they are mirrors of realities that reveal female challenges in today’s society.
The work delves into the existential crisis of Ilana, a character who embodies statistics from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) that show that 75.7% of divorces in Brazil are initiated by women. The narrative accurately captures the marital dissatisfaction reported by 68% of women in unstable unions, according to the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), and the 47% growth in demand for couples therapy in recent years, according to data from the Department of Information and IT of the Unified Health System (DataSUS).
Already in Words I saved for my daughterFernanda addresses, with rare delicacy, the complex issue of unfulfilled motherhood, a topic that affects approximately 8 million Brazilian women. The book brings the journey of an infertile mother to meeting her daughter, from before pregnancy to the postpartum period, with healing passages through her memory and ancestry.
Fernanda França de Oliveira is from Sete Lagoas, in Minas Gerais, but is based in Rio de Janeiro. She is a career public servant and has developed several writing skills, having released three individual works and participated in several award-winning anthologies.
About Conversation with the Author
Presented by Katy Navarro and produced by Rafael Tavares, the program Conversation with the Author aims to promote Brazilian literature and encourage reading. The weekly attraction of MEC Radio welcomes writers for interviews about their publications and various subjects from the world of books.
There are almost 30 minutes of relaxed chat full of content in which national authors feel free to talk about their work. The conversations cover releases, titles, curiosities, creative process, suggestions for works, readings and the various literary narratives of Brazilian authors.
Launched just over a decade ago, in 2013, the production has all episodes of the new season available in video format. videocast on the channel MEC Radio on YouTube.
About MEC Radio
Known from North to South of the country as The Classical Music Radio of Brazil, Rádio MEC is renowned by the public for its vocation towards concert music. The traditional station dedicates 80% of its programming to classical music and airs Brazilian and foreign composers of all times.
THE MEC Radio offers listeners the experience of following segmented repertoires, original compositions and qualified productions. There is also space for tracks jazz and Brazilian popular music, a combination that guarantees the conquest of new audiences and pleases the captive audience.
The station can be tuned to FM 99.3 MHz and AM 800 kHz in Rio de Janeiro. The dial MEC Radio in Brasília it is on FM 87.1 MHz and AM 800 kHz. The public also follows programming in Belo Horizonte on the FM 87.1 MHz frequency. The content is also broadcast on the Rádios EBC app.
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