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- Death Is a
Festival,
by João José Reis, the English-language edition of
A Morte é Uma Festa, has been honored with a Choice Oustanding
Academic Title award for 2005. A publication of a division of the American
Library Association, Choice is the most important review journal
for academic libraries, and this very desirable designation is given to
a small, select list of books judged to be the "best of the best" (less
than 3% of the 23,000 titles submitted to Choice in the past year
and only 10% of the titles actually reviewed in Choice). Published
by the University of North Carolina Press – Chapel Hill in 2003, Death
is a Festival was translated from the Portuguese by H.
Sabrina Gledhill, senior partner of Five-Star IC.
The Brazilian edition, A Morte é uma Festa, also won the Jabuti Award in 1992 and the Haring Award from the American Historical Association in 1995. The book discusses attitudes towards death in Brazil and the Cemiterada, a revolt against the first open-air cemetery that broke out in the city of Salvador in 1836. The Choice award was officially announced on January 3, 2005. * * * Brazil
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The Royal Library's Book of Books (Livro
dos Livros da Real Biblioteca), by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Paulo
César Azevedo, won the 2004 Aberje Award for São Paulo in
the Special Publication category. H. Sabrina Gledhill translated the English
version of this bilingual edition. The Brazilian Corporate Communications
Association (Aberje) hailed the Odebrecht Group, the book's sponsor and
a valued client for over 16 years, as Company of the Year in Corporate
Communications. Márcio Polidoro, the Odebrecht S.A. officer responsible
for corporate communications, also won the regional award as Corporate
Communications Personality of the Year.
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