Why We Choose not to See the Old
Dulce Maria Cardoso on ageing. Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana.
portuguese
portuguese – PEN Transmissions
A Broken Story: A Conversation with Mia Couto
Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid‑19 and silence.
Plague Diary: A Week
Three days from a week of Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares's coronavirus diary.
Spelling out FLIP
Sophie Lewis writes for PEN Atlas about the once sleepy and secluded town of Paraty, Brazil, now home to one of the continent's best and most varied literary festivals
Horror and words
Michel Laub, author of Diary of the Fall, writes for PEN Atlas on the importance of defining a vocabulary of atrocity