Eliane Brum

Eliane Brum has worked as a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. In two decades of reporting she has won over forty national and international awards in journalism, among them the Premio Rey de España and the Inter American Associated Press Award. In 2008, she received the United Nations Special Press Trophy. In the field of documentary film, she was co-director and co-writer of Uma história severina (Severina’s Story), winner of 17 national and international awards. Eliane Brum currently works as a freelance journalist and novelist, with five published nonfiction books and the novel Uma Duas (One Two).