MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies

Eliane Brum

Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies

Eliane Brum (born May 1966, in Ijuí) is a Brazilian journalist, writer and documentarist. In 2019, she was long-listed for a National Book Award and has many other awards and prizes to her credit. She has published several books, both fiction and non-fiction, and has a column in El País Internacional and also writes regularly for The Guardian. In 2017, she moved to Altamira in the Amazon basin and then, a few years ago, she bought a small plot of land with her husband, Jonathan Watts, the environment editor for The Guardian. Alongside others in their small community, the couple are reforesting land that was cleared for cattle pasture.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/eliane-brum-banzeiro-okoto/