{"id":10665,"date":"2020-04-07T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetatangerina.com\/?p=10665"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:34:05","slug":"7-questions-to-jose-maria-vieira-mendes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetatangerina.com\/en\/7-questions-to-jose-maria-vieira-mendes\/","title":{"rendered":"7 questions to Jos\u00e9 Maria Vieira Mendes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jos\u00e9 Maria mostly writes for the theatre, but he also writes opera librettos, literary translations and \u2014 so far \u2014 two children\u2019s books. His debutting on Planeta Tangerina\u2019s catalog with the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetatangerina.com\/en\/loja\/what-is-it-for\/\">Para que serve? (What is it for?)<\/a>. The text was born from a conference for children, held at Teatro LU.CA in January 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell us about the conference that inspired this book. We wish we had been there\u2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really enjoyed doing this conference, for which Teatro LU.CA challenged me to answer the question \u201cWhat is culture for?\u201d. This briefing created a certain expectation that was fun to dismantle \u2014 because, as you can imagine, I didn\u2019t actually answer the question\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When did you start developing this habit to ask questions to questions? And where has it led you to?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I was often faced with questions to which I couldn\u2019t find answers, no matter how much I learned or reflected on them. 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That\u2019s what makes it a book \u2014 and sets it apart from a corkscrewer, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How did you find the experience of creating a picture book together with an illustrator?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Madalena\u2019s illustrations have a dialogue with the text and are part of a book which is the sum of both \u2014 reaching a result the text alone never imagined possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In regards to your writing experience, what\u2019s the difference between writing for this kind of picture book and writing for a theatre play?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> There are many differences, but there\u2019s also a similarity: the possibility to allow yourself to be surprised by a collaboration that leads you to places where you never imagined you could be. 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