Eva Furnari
{{Short description|Italian-Brazilian children's book writer and illustrator}}
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Eva Furnari (born 15 November 1948) is an Italian–Brazilian children's book writer and illustrator. She won the Prêmio Jabuti for children's literature seven times.{{Cite web|title = Eva Furnari|url = http://jornadasliterarias.upf.br/15jornada/index.php/autores/389-eva-furnari.html|website = jornadasliterarias.upf.br|accessdate = 2015-07-26|first = |last = Webmaster}}{{cite web |title=11 livros para ler antes de crescer |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folhinha/2019/10/11-livros-para-ler-antes-de-crescer.shtml |website=Folha de S.Paulo |access-date=4 November 2024 |language=pt-BR |date=12 October 2019}}
Biography
Funari was born in Rome. Her family moved to Brazil in 1950, when she was two. She graduated in architecture at the University of São Paulo, and worked at Museu Lasar Segall from 1976 to 1979.{{Cite web|title=Escritora e ilustradora, Eva Furnari participa de entrevista ao vivo na TV Estadão|url=https://www.msn.com/pt-br/noticias/brasil/eva-furnari-%C3%A9-entrevistada-nesta-quinta-feira-na-tv-estad%C3%A3o/ar-AAJDr9g|access-date=2020-07-28|website=www.msn.com}} From 1980 she began to venture into the publication of wordless picture books. Furnari has collaborated in the children's section Folhinha of the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, in which she created one of her better-known characters, "Bruxinha".
In 2002, she was selected to illustrate a new edition of six children books by Érico Veríssimo.{{Cite web|last=Cultural|first=Instituto Itaú|title=Eva Furnari|url=http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/pessoa11914/eva-furnari|access-date=2020-07-28|website=Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural|language=pt-br}}
She wrote more than 60 titles. One of them, Felpo Filva, was translated into English, as Fuzz McFlops.{{Cite web|title=Creating Fuzz McFlops {{!}} The Bookseller|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/feature/creating-fuzz-mcflops-339364|access-date=2020-07-28|website=www.thebookseller.com}}
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External links
- [http://www.evafurnari.com.br/en/ Eva Furnari's website]
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Category:Brazilian children's writers
Category:20th-century Brazilian illustrators
Category:20th-century Brazilian women writers
Category:21st-century Brazilian illustrators
Category:21st-century Brazilian women writers
Category:Brazilian women children's book illustrators
Category:Brazilian women children's writers
Category:Brazilian children's book illustrators
Category:Portuguese-language writers
Category:Italian emigrants to Brazil
Category:Italian people of Brazilian descent
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