Susana Moreira Marques
From 31 May to 9 July 2021

The writer and journalist Susana Moreira Marques lives and works in Lisbon. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Feuilleton, and a number of other publications. As a journalist, she has won several prizes, including the UNESCO Human Rights and Integration Journalism Award (Portugal). Widely acclaimed, her first book, Agora e na Hora da Nossa Morte (Tinta da China, 2013), has been translated into English (Now and at the Hour of Our Death, High Wycombe, 2015), Spanish and French; it mixes travel writing, oral history, and philosophical meditations on the end of life. Her second book, Quanto tempo tem um dia – Experiências de maternidade (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2020) deals with being a mother.