Join us in Dr. Pedro Pereira's PORT 5530 class, dedicated to the study of the cultural relations between Portugal and Brazil from the mid-1990s to present, for a conversation with Alexandra Lucas Coelho and her 2016 novel, Deus-Dará. The novel explores the legacies of long-standing colonial history in both countries and the experiences of a Portuguese woman, writer and journalist living in Brazil in the period immediately preceding Brazil's political and social turmoil that led to the election of authoritarian president Jair Bolsonaro in 2018.
Alexandra Lucas Coelho is a Portuguese writer and journalist. She has published 14 books. As a reporter she covered crisis zones from the USSR to the Middle East, Central Asia and Latin America. She lived in Jerusalem and Rio de Janeiro as a correspondent. Her first novel, E a Noite Roda, set mostely in Israel/Palestine, received the Portuguese Association of Writer's (APE) main prize. Followed by O Meu Amante de Domingo, a political-sexual satire; Deus-Dará, a long illustrated novel set in contemporary Rio de Janeiro but intersecting 500 years of colonial history; and A Nossa Alegria Chegou, a short novel. Her non-fiction includes Oriente Próximo; Caderno Afegão; Viva México; Tahrir; Vai, Brasil; Mumtazz; Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um Beijo para Caetano Veloso (APE Prize for Travel Literature), and last volume, also with photos, Líbano Labirinto. She's currently working on her fifth novel, connected with a poetry volume.
Register for the event here: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldeyspjsjGdNAGkbUmEndHJujGnEQA7ko
This event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.
