Glossolalia: Women Writing Brazil: A PEN America publication

by Eliane Brum, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Maria Esther Maciel

Women Writing Brazil is the second issue of Glossolalia, PEN America's translation journal. The all-female lineup was inspired by, and a response to, machismo comments made by male Brazilian writers at the 2015 Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (FLIP Festival) that “there are no great female writers in Brazil.” We think otherwise.

Glossolalia advocates for writers with limited access to the global reading community. By publishing works from lesser-translated languages, we connect storytellers to audiences eager for a vivid, mind-expanding look at experiences unlike their own.

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 2017

About the author

Eliane Brum é escritora, jornalista e documentarista. Uma das repórteres mais premiadas da história do Brasil, em 2021 recebeu o prêmio Maria Moors Cabot, da Columbia University, pelo conjunto de sua obra.
É idealizadora, fundadora e diretora de redação da plataforma trilíngue Sumaúma – jornalismo do centro do mundo, baseada na Amazônia, e colunista da seção de internacional do jornal espanhol El País. Publicou 9 livros e dirigiu quatro documentários.

Eliane Brum is a writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. One of the most highly awarded reporters in Brazil’s history, she received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University in 2021 in recognition of her body of work. She is the creator, founder, and editor-in-chief of the trilingual platform Sumaúma – Journalism from the Center of the World, based in the Amazon, and a columnist in the international section of the Spanish newspaper El País. She has published nine books and directed four documentaries.