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One thing you cannot be sure of is tomorrow. Otherwise living will be an unchallenged succession of days and nights. We are wandering butterflies that need to invent our own ventures and conquer the seeds of future dreams.
Born in Bahia and living in the State of Espírito Santo since 1995, Margarida Reimão started to follow a road throughout the world of letters when she was seven, at the second grade at school. Her teacher asked the class to write a composition about the rain. She made a story where the character talked with the rain and asked it to water the fields but not to wet her old umbrella, whose dotted cloth let the raindrops leak through them.
When the teacher returned the compositions in class, in the rigid nun school where she studied (Our Holy Mother of Soledade, Salvador - Bahia), she shivered while she waited for her composition to be handed back. Then she heard the teacher say out her name: "Margarida Reimão, I cannot grant you 20, but you got the highest 10 possible" and showed her 10 grade marked in red ink covering all the width on the sheet of paper.
That meant the biggest incentive to her and maybe because of that, she never quit writing. She published her first book, gathering prose and poems written during her youth - "Barco à Deriva" ("Boat Adrift") - and released it in 1982, through the Writers' Federation of Bahia - FEBAE. "That was the encounter with my 'depression', my loneliness and my joys", says Margarida Reimão and since then, she has written eleven books:
The movements of life are almost imperceptible - if we don't pay close attention, all will stay tied to the spool of time."
Translated by Thereza Christina Rocque da Motta