Escola Selvagem is a project already recognized for its communicational success and cultural importance, making traditional knowledge, so excluded and undervalued, more accessible. It is a concept by Anna Dantes, guided by Ailton Krenak, produced by Madeleine Deschamps and carried out by a collective that involves partners, supporters, participants and the public.

Ailton Krenak:
Ailton is a thinker, environmentalist and one of the main voices of indigenous knowledge. He lives in the Krenak village, on the banks of the Doce River, in Minas Gerais. He is the author of the books .“Ideias para Adiar o Fim do Mundo” (“Ideas to Postpone the End of the World”) and “A Vida é Não Útil” (“Life is not useful”) (Letras compan, 2019 and 2020).

Anna Dantes:
Since 1995, on behalf of Dantes Livraria, a second-hand bookstore that she opened in 1994, Anna started to be called Anna Dantes and that’s how it stayed. From 1997 onwards, Dantes also became a publisher and, since 2006, Anna has been fully dedicated to this activity. Since 2011, Dantes has been involved with the Huni Kuin indigenous people in Acre in the “Livro Escola Viva” book project, which has been an inspiration for the Selvagem.

Madeleine Deschamps:
French tha has lived in Brazil, Madeleine is a cultural producer and translator. Her skills as a cultural producer brought her closer to Dantes Editora, with whom she has collaborated since 2018 in the making of books and in the general production of Selvagem – cycle of studies on life. Together with Victoria Mouawad, he forms a duo translating essays on literature, philosophy and academic articles.