Julian Fuks
[2017 Saramago Award – “The Resistance”]

His parents, psychoanalysts, fled the Argentine dictatorship. Julián Fuks grew up in São Paulo between two languages ​​and familiar with the need to permanently decode the subtext of reality, laying it out on the couch. He confesses that he is tired of fiction and it is from reality that he seeks the raw material for his writing. Be it the collective reality, accompanying homeless people occupying vacant buildings, or the family reality, with the adopted brother who has not yet read the book in which he became a character. Because everything that is personal is political.

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 years old.
They are the ‘Heirs of 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.