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Eliane Brum

Eliane Brum
Eliane Brum is a Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. She has written five books of nonfiction and a novel, translated into English as One Two. Uma história Severina (Severina’s Story), Brum’s first documentary film, won 17 prizes. She has been awarded more than 40 national and international journalism prizes. Brum reports on issues related to the Amazon forest and underprivileged communities in São Paulo, and writes columns for El País and The Guardian. Her newest book The Collector of Leftover Souls is now out from Graywolf Press.


The Amazon’s History is Also That of Its Indigenous Residents

Eliane Brum on Whiteness, Bodies in Different Languages, and a More Holistic Approach to Ecology
March 8, 2023  By Eliane Brum
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One Person’s Junk Is Another Person’s Treasure

In Brazil, One Man Collects Fragments of Discarded Lives
September 17, 2019  By Eliane Brum
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João and Raimunda: On The Injustices of Brazil’s Belo Monte Project

“I want the world to know that Belo Monte killed me.”
July 28, 2016  By Eliane Brum
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