Julia Garayo Willemyns is a current student of French and Portuguese at University of Oxford. Being born to a Brazilian mother, she focuses non-exclusively on Brazilian literature, cinema and culture. Twitter: @jujulemons Instagram: @jujulemons
A caterpillar drawn in chalk on a concrete floor. Its artist, the eleven-year-old Nando. The camera lingers, before cutting to dizzying shots: the Maracanã Stadium, a football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Mangueira favela; a ‘slum’... Read Article
Ballet classes in a Rio de Janeiro favela are helping empower a generation of dancers and bring hope to a neglected neighborhood. Wanie Nascimento – a model, ballerina and university student – was born to two African immigrants... Read Article
I arrive at Audio Rebel, in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, and am struck by how incongruous the space is from the outside. It seems like a relatively residential area – colonial-style houses covered in graffiti are sandwiched in... Read Article
Scroll to the end of this article to read poems from the collection Um girassol nos teus cabelos – poemas para Marielle Franco (A Sunflower in Her Hair – Poems for Marielle Franco). It’s March the 14th, 2018.... Read Article
Héctor Babenco, a renowned Brazilian-Argentinean filmmaker, passed away in 2016 at the age of sixty, after struggling with cancer for three decades. The fragmentary, impressionistic documentary, Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2019) is directed by his widow,... Read Article
María José Ferrada, who has historically written children’s novels, published Kramp, her first novel aimed at adults, in her native Spanish in 2017. It is published in English as How to Order the Universe, translated by Elizabeth Bryer.... Read Article
Juli Delgado Lopera is a queer performer and writer. Driven by activism, literary performance and language, they have recently published their first novel, Fiebre Tropical. The story follows Francisca, a fifteen-year-old girl who just moved from Bogotá to... Read Article
Juli Delgado Lopera’s bilingual novel follows a Colombian teenager, Francisca, and the women in her life from Bogotá to Miami. Like many other coming-of-age stories, it deals with love, loss and sexuality, but Fiebre Tropical is much more... Read Article
