Sport in Brazil Brazilian jockey T. J. Pereira aboard. Curling is a growing sport in Brazil; the creation of a national team was inspired by the audience for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A temporary rink in the Eldorado Shopping Center in São Paulo featured Norwegian curler Linn Githmark and a winter-sports complex is planned, probably in the city of Campos do Jordão. Frescobol is a native Brazilian sport similar to tennis and cricket, played with a wooden racket and soft rubber ball on the beach with no scoring system. It began during the 1960s on Ipanema beach. Biribol is another native
A Girl in Winter stated that he had originally intended to write further novels, but he published no more fiction after "A Girl in Winter", possibly because of a shortage of material on which to draw for inspiration. John Osborne called it "the most underestimated work in the Larkin canon" and "a harbinger of greatness". The book was adapted for radio and broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2013, along with an adaptation of Larkin's first novel, "Jill". A Girl in Winter A Girl in Winter is a novel by Philip Larkin, first published in 1947 by Faber and Faber. It was published in