Eliane Brum (born May 1966, in
IjuÃ
Ijuà () is a Brazilian municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, situated from the state capital, Porto Alegre. In 2020 its population was 83,764, making it the third most populous city of the Missões region, behind Passo Fundo and Erechim.
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) is a Brazilian journalist, writer and documentarist. In 2019, she was long-listed for a National Book Award.
Life
She graduated from the
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (, PUCRS) is a private non-profit Catholic university. With campuses in the Brazilian cities of Porto Alegre and Viamão, it is the largest private university of the state of Rio Grande do S ...
(PUC / RS) in 1988 and has written for
Zero Hora
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Inquiry on Grupo RBS oligopoly / monopoly practicing
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,
Época and
El PaÃs
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and won more than 40 international awards for reporting, among them the
Premio Rey de España and the
Inter American Associated Press Award.
Brum is the author of a novel - ''Uma Duas'' (published in English by
AmazonCrossing as ''One Two''
- three feature news stories books: ''Coluna Prestes - O Avesso da Lenda'', ''A Vida que Ninguém Vê'' (which was awarded in 2007 the
Prêmio Jabuti
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) and ''O Olho da Rua'' - and ''A Menina Quebrada'', a collection of columns written by her in Época magazine's website.
She also codirected and cowrote the 2005 documentary film ''Uma história severina'' (Severina's Story), winner of seventeen national and international awards.
In 2008 she received the United Nations Special Press Trophy.
Her work appeared in ''
The Guardian
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''. and ''El Pais''.
She participated in the
Doctors without Borders
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** Doctorate
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compilation of special reports Dignity, which also included authors such as
Mario Vargas Llosa
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. She is co-director of three documentaries: ''Severina's Story'', ''Gretchen Filme Estrada'', and ''
Laerte-se''.
She is married to British journalist
Jonathan Watts
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.
Works
Literature
*1994 - ''Coluna Prestes – O Avesso da Lenda'' (Arts & Crafts)
*2006 - ''The Life Nobody Sees'' (Arquipélago Editorial)
*2008 - ''Olho da Rua – a reporter in search of real-life literature'' (
Editora Globo
Editora Globo S.A. is a Brazilian publishing house, property of :pt:Fundação Roberto Marinho, Fundação Roberto Marinho. It began as a bookstore called Livraria do Globo, created in Porto Alegre, in December 1883, by Laudelino Pinheiro de Barc ...
)
*2011 - Uma Duas (
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)
*2013 - ''The Broken Girl'' (Arquipélago Editorial)
*2014 - ''My disappointments – The story of my life with words'' (Arquipélago Editorial)
*2019 - ''Brazil, builder of ruins'' (Arquipélago Editorial)
*2019 - ''The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections'' (Graywolf)
*2021 - ''Banzeiro òkòtó: A trip to the Amazon Center of the World'' (Companhia das Letras)
Filmography
(Director, Screenwriter)
* 2005 - ''
Uma História Severina'' (co-directed with
Debora Diniz)
* 2010 - ''Gretchen Filme Estrada'' (codireção em parceria com Paschoal Samora)
* 2017 - ''
Laerte-se'' (codireção em parceria com Lygia Barbosa da Silva)
* 2017 - ''Eu+1: Uma jornada de saúde mental na Amazônia''
References
External links
Elian Brum's official page (in Portuguese)Portal dos Jornalistas - Eliane BrumRevista Época - Eliane BrumEliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard
''The Nation'', May 22, 2023
1966 births
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian women writers
Living people
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni
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