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Miguel Sousa Tavares Portugal PWF 2013
“I choose nothing and I am in no situation to choose. I cling to what passes by—whenever I can—things that come to me—that I don’t seek out. Are you with me?”
Miguel Sousa Tavares remains riveting—reporting the unguarded forces which rule our lives. Born in 1952 in Oporto, Portugal—Tavares continually moves between literature and television journalism—a perilous journey few undertake.
Take his brilliant novel Equator—“a line symbolically marking the frontier between two worlds. Possibly a contraction of the expression in old Portuguese—‘é-cum-a-dor’—that is—‘it brings pain’.”
In excavating pain, Tavares rattles the old Czech proverb—“never seek change.”
“The only things I hang on to are books, paintings and children.”
Miguel Sousa Tavares lives in Lisbon.
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