Eliane Brum
Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Centre of the World

“With a literary style that blends investigative rigor with lived experience, Eliane Brum builds a narrative that transcends journalism and, in the tradition of writers like Truman Capote and Ryszard Kapuściński, presents reality as an aesthetic shaped by immersion and denunciation. […] More than a book, Banzeiro Òkòtò is a new way of thinking and inhabiting a collapsing world.”

Patrícia Melo, jury member