Where books find their way.

Carolina Candido is a literary translator and editorial project manager at Editora Pormenor. She holds a degree in Languages from the University of São Paulo and a master’s degree in Translation from the University of Lisbon. She has translated more than 60 books, including works by Jamaica Kincaid, Sarah J. Maas and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Mirela Paes is a romance author and managing partner at Assessoria Lavanda, a communications agency dedicated to the book industry. With more than 12 years in publishing, she has taken part in major book and pop culture events across Brazil as a moderator and speaker.

Carol Façanha is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow and a bestselling Amazon author with more than one million pages read. Her work explores female monstrosity, women’s rage and sexuality as a political force. She won the 2024 Prêmio Voz for the dystopian novel Ciborgues rebeldes sonham com a morte.

Ana Fiori is an anthropologist and an editorial relations and projects analyst at Booknando. Her work connects projects, research and cultural trends in publishing, with a focus on how books circulate and how authors, readers and the market interact.

Lucas Fischer Zapelini is the founder of Clube de Literatura Clássica. He creates and leads editorial projects dedicated to preserving and sharing major works of the literary tradition while building a community of readers around them.

Elton Luiz is an engineer, the marketing director at Clube de Literatura Clássica and a partner at Editora Trinca Literária. His work brings together publishing, audience development and the growth of reader communities.

Juliana Tavares leads commercial, finance and people management at Booknando Livros, a company specialising in AI-voiced audiobooks and accessible EPUB3 books for Brazil’s national textbook programme. She has a background in business administration and organisational psychology.

Sofia Camargo is an editorial producer at Grupo Primavera and holds a degree in Languages from PUC-SP. She works on books from concept to publication across literature, non-fiction, culture, leadership and the future of work.

Mariana Viana is a journalist and co-founder of Fora do Plástico, a Brazilian platform dedicated to comics coverage, criticism and discovery. She won the 2025 Troféu Angelo Agostini for specialised journalism and the 2026 Young Talent Award from PublishNews and Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Camila Zapelini develops new projects and creative initiatives at Clube de Literatura Clássica.

Bianca Albuquerque is publisher and acquisitions director at Editora Fruto Proibido, where she leads the creation of the list. She works across manuscript curation, editorial production and projects that connect stories to readers, with a focus on growing the catalogue and taking its books further.

Ana Clara Albuquerque is assistant to the editor-in-chief at Editora Fruto Proibido, an independent house publishing adult romance, dark romance and romantasy.

Cássia Carrenho has worked with books for more than fifteen years. She started at PublishNews, became a partner at Faculdade LabPub, ran her own house at Flip and produced festivals such as FLIR and FLIF, as well as serving on the curatorial teams of the São Paulo and Rio book biennials. She led the Passaporte Frankfurt project and created Movimento Indie, an initiative for the professionalisation of independent authors.