Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian

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and

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. She is a

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at the

University of São Paulo The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil. The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...

, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor (Global Scholar) at

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. Her main fields of study are anthropology and history of 19th-century Brazil, focusing on the

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and

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between

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and

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peoples. Schwarcz is

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. In 1986, she co-founded the

Companhia das Letras Companhia das Letras is the largest publishing house in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. It was founded in 1986 by Luiz Schwarcz and his wife, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Companhia das Letras began as a literary publishing house and gradually grew into ...

publishing house with her husband Luis Schwarcz. She is a curator for the

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, and writes a column at the news website . In 2024, Lilia was elected to occupy seat number 9 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL).

Bibliography

* ''Retrato em branco e negro: jornais, escravos e cidadãos em São Paulo no fim do século XIX''.

, 1987. * * (English edition: ) * As Barbas do Imperador (English edition:''The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and His Tropical Monarchy in Brazil''. Hill and Wang, 2003. ) * ''O Império em Procissão'' - Zahar, 2000. * ''A Longa Viagem da Biblioteca dos Reis - Do terremoto de Lisboa à Independência do Brasil''. Companhia das Letras, 2002. * ''O Sol do Brasil: Nicolas-Antoine Taunay e as Desventuras Dos Artistas Franceses na Corte de D. João 1816-1821''. Companhia das Letras, 2008. - Prêmio Jabuti - Melhor Biografia 2009 * ''D. João Carioca - A corte portuguesa chega ao Brasil 1808-1821''. Companhia das Letras, 2008. * ''Um enigma chamado Brasil ''(Org. com André Botelho). ''Companhia das Letras, 2009. - Prêmio Jabuti - Ciências Sociais 2010'' * ''Agenda brasileira'' (Org. com André Botelho). Companhia das Letras, 2011. * ''História do Brasil Nação Vol. 3 - A abertura para o mundo 1889-1930'' (Org. do volume e Diretora da Coleção). Objetiva, 2012. * ''Nem preto nem branco, muito pelo contrário''. Claro Enigma (Companhia das Letras), 2012. * ''A batalha do Avaí - a beleza da barbárie: a Guerra do Paraguai pintada por Pedro Américo''. Rio de Janeiro, Sextante. 2013. * ''Brasil: uma Biografia'' (co-written with Heloisa Murgel Starling). Companhia das Letras. 2015. (English edition: ''Brazil, a Biography.''

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, 2018'')'' * *''Lima Barreto: Triste Visionário''. Companhia das Letras, 2017. *Dicionário da Escravidão e Liberdade (organizer, with Flávio dos Santos Gomes). Companhia das Letras, 2018.

References

External links

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz official siteLilia Moritz Schwarcz profile on University of São Paulo Department of Anthropology
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