Banzeiro Òkòtó

Eliane Brum: ‘The fight for the Amazon is the fight against our extinction’

html

– Humberto Toze * Marie Claire (Brazil) *

Banzeiro Òkòtó: a breathtaking experience (APPOA Column)

* Sul21 *

This year, I only needed to open my window in Brazil to witness the climate crisis

‘My snapshot of 2022 shows the Amazon burning – but what it doesn’t communicate is the pain’

– Eliane Brum * The Guardian *

5 – Star Review from Peter Whittaker

‘beyond reportage, beyond polemic; channelling the many voices’

– Peter Whittaker * New Internationalist *

A Manifesto for a New World, With the Amazon at Its Center

“Banzeiro Òkòtó,” by Eliane Brum, considers the devastating impacts of mass deforestation on Brazil and its people.

html?smid=tw-share

– William Atkins * The New York Times *

The Amazon’s History is Also That of Its Indigenous Residents

Eliane Brum on Whiteness, Bodies in Different Languages, and a More Holistic Approach to Ecology

* Literary Hub *

Living with the Xingu in deepest Amazonia

The Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum moves from São Paulo to ‘reforest’ herself in the Amazon, and slowly gains the trust of a wary, isolated tribal people.

– Hugh Tomson * The Spectator *

Journalism from the centre of the world

* SUMAÚMA *

April Edition

/

* The Environment *

One Journalist’s Dispatch From the Battle to Protect the Amazon Rainforest

* InsideHook *

Eliane Brum is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarist. Her work of nonfiction, The Collector of Leftover Souls, was long-listed for the National Book Award for translated literature.

She is a columnist for the international section of El Pas and also writes for other European and US newspapers and magazines. She is a founder of Sumama: Journalism from the Center of the World, a trilingual news platform based in Altamira, in the Amazon rainforest, where she lives.

Her work as a journalist has won more than 40 prizes.