A 2013 interview with journalist Eliane Brum at the Sempre Um Papo literary festival in Belo Horizonte, where she talks about her new book, A Menina Quebrada, a collection of the best of her weekly columns in which ‘she gives the reader a snapshot of our times, seen through the eyes of a reporter who observes the world with a determination to see’.
Eliane Brum: collected journalism
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