Andrea del Fuego
[2011 Saramago Award – “Os Malaquias”]

He divides himself between Umbanda, the gathering of a Catholic church and the bohemian bar where he regularly meets with a group of other writers from São Paulo. The first texts published by Andréa del Fuego were answers to sexual questions from magazine readers. It was there that the pseudonym with which he signs was born. She became a medium in a spiritist center, before dedicating herself to the study of Philosophy. He thus discovered that there is no solid ground for any human experience and found the territory of the imagination in literature.

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.