ADRIANA LISBON
[2003 Saramago Prize – ‘Sinfonia em Branco’]

She has lived in the United States for more than a decade, but returned to Rio de Janeiro to revisit, in the series Herdeiros de Saramago, the places where she became a writer. With her memory as a cicerone, Adriana Lisboa reconnects with old friends and returns to samba, chorinho and the instrument with which she studied higher education in music: the flute. But it is at sea, in its deep mystery, that the most intense identification with the city where he grew up remains. The sunset at Pedra do Arpoador is still beautiful.

HEIRS OF SARAMAGO 
Eleven award-winning writers, eleven films  The José Saramago Literary Prize, created a year after Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, celebrates the talent of authors under forty.
They are the ‘Herdeiros de Saramago’, protagonists of this documentary series written by Carlos Vaz Marques and directed by Graça Castanheira.
Eleven very different voices, from different origins, with one link in common: the literary recreation of the Portuguese language.
Closely following each of these writers (in Portugal, Brazil and Angola), here is an intimate and affective portrait of some of the most prominent voices in Saramago’s language.