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Tereza Yamashita


Tereza Yamashita is a graphic designer, illustrator and writer, graduated in Communication and Arts/Mackenzie, with an extension in creative writing from PUC-SP. Participated in the anthology of the 1st Café Poetry Prize, 2023. Published MundOmissíssimo in 2022. Debuted in 2007 with the anthology 15 cuentos brasileros , published in Argentina. Next came Retratos Japoneses no Brasil – Literatura Mestiça, 2010; Hocus Pocus High Tech and HyperconnectionsBlood and Titanium, 2017; Volatile realities & radical vertigo, 2019; Ruins , 2020; Mundo-Vertigem and Kriptokriaturas, 2021; The day the universe closed its eyes, 2022, by the KriptoKaipora collective.

There are several children's books, such as Mãos Mágicas, by SESI-SP Editora, second place in Jabuti 2016, in the Digital Children's Literature category, and Troca de pele , Editora Hedra (2009), awarded the PROAC 2007 by the State Secretariat for Culture. He has short stories and illustrations published in Folhinha - SP, Continente magazine, Et Cetera magazine, Gueto magazine, Germina magazine, Urutau magazine, Helena magazine, Brasil Nikkei Bungaku magazine, Rascunho newspaper and Cândido newspaper.

Updated November 2023


Stories from This Author

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Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage
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Nov. 15, 2023 • Tereza Yamashita

Barely coming from the mushroom of 1945, my maternal and paternal grandparents. Dreaming of new adventures, new seeds and new loves. Young people came from the other side of the world, deceived by the Emperor's announcements about wealth and land, to meet here in Brazil! They cultivated under the burning sun: a new future, a new home and a new couple. They never came back… third generation. Child screams, he is the youngest of three brothers. A difficult childhood, she …

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