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Director
Graça Castanheira
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Released
Biography
2020
Episodes
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 1 - Paulo José Miranda
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 1 - Paulo José Miranda
It was in a telephone booth in southern Turkey that he received the news of the distinction. Paulo José Miranda, the first winner of the José Saramago Prize, lived outside Portugal for so many years that he is, even today, for many people, an author to discover.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 2 - José Luís Peixoto
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 2 - José Luís Peixoto
Tattoos and piercings have become a hallmark of a writer who prefers, however, to be recognized for having won the José Saramago Prize. He was, in fact, the youngest author to receive it and with this recognition he put Galveias, the small Alentejo village where he was born, on the map of Portuguese literature.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 3 - Adriana Lisboa
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 3 - Adriana Lisboa
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.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 4 - Gonçalo M. Tavares
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 4 - Gonçalo M. Tavares
During his adolescence, in Aveiro, he divided himself between football and mathematics. He is interested in the intersection between the concrete and the abstract – that's why he says he likes an idea that he can sit on.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 5 - Valter Hugo Mãe
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 5 - Valter Hugo Mãe
He assures that everything about him tends to help him find words. Even when we hear him sing or when we see him draw, it is the writer and his greed for experiences that takes control of the incident.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 6 - João Tordo
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 6 - João Tordo
He cycles through Lisbon to discover the first stories he wrote. Visiting the childhood home he never returned to is a journey back in time. João Tordo grew up surrounded by women.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 7 - Andréa del Fuego
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 7 - Andréa del Fuego
She divides herself between the umbanda, the gathering of a Catholic church and the bohemian bar where she meets regularly with a group of other writers from São Paulo.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 8 - Ondjaki
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 8 - Ondjaki
He claims for himself the right to invent his own memories. He draws from his childhood the emotional fuel for the stories he tells. Luanda is a central character in Ondjaki's books and the theater of the absurd in the Angolan capital is an inexhaustible source of energy, even in the midst of the most dramatic difficulties.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 9 - Bruno Vieira Amaral
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 9 - Bruno Vieira Amaral
He grew up in a social neighborhood where almost everything was missing, but where at some point a library appeared. He added new pages and characters to the Bible stories that allowed him to leave the neighborhood, never leaving it.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 10 - Julián Fuks
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 10 - Julián Fuks
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.
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 11 - Afonso Reis Cabral
Herdeiros de Saramago S1
EP 11 - Afonso Reis Cabral
He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. At secondary school, he introduced himself to his Portuguese teacher, who would preface his first book, saying he was a poet. Afonso Reis Cabral, however, exchanged his first lyrical attempts for fictional writing where not everything is just imagination.
EP 1 - Paulo José Miranda
2020 | 0h25
EP 2 - José Luís Peixoto
2020 | 0h25
EP 3 - Adriana Lisboa
2020 | 0h25
EP 4 - Gonçalo M. Tavares
2020 | 0h25
EP 5 - Valter Hugo Mãe
2020 | 0h25
EP 6 - João Tordo
2020 | 0h25
EP 7 - Andréa del Fuego
2020 | 0h25
EP 8 - Ondjaki
2020 | 0h25
EP 9 - Bruno Vieira Amaral
2020 | 0h25
EP 10 - Julián Fuks
2020 | 0h25
EP 11 - Afonso Reis Cabral
2020 | 0h25