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Scholar-Practitioner Q+A . . . An Interview with Susana Moreira Marques
| dc.contributor.author | Trindade, Alice | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nery, Isabel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-10T14:32:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-10T14:32:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Susana Moreira Marques was born in Porto, northern Portugal, in 1976, and currently lives in Lisbon. She worked for the BBC World Service and lived in Great Britain for a number of years, where her work was published in newspapers such as the Guardian. Her career as an author—the designation she likes to use for people who engage in writing, as it is the term that puts aside any differences between journalist and writer—has undergone different phases. She has worked for national newspapers such as Público and Jornal de Negócios, and more recently she has been with the Portuguese national public radio, RDP, where she hosts a weekly crónica. Moreira Marques’s work with the BBC until 2011 allowed her the freedom to research and reach different publics and outlets in places as varied as Hong Kong and Australia. Moreira Marques is a person whose demeanor is as graceful and observant as her writing. Elegant and delicate, she produces powerful texts based on information acquired through immersion research, handling difficult top ics such as migrants’ rights, sickness, and death, as well as easygoing texts that can be read on her blog, Bay Window,1 which she wrote for two years about her experiences while living in London. As an observer, her gaze comes from the outside, but she allows her senses and feelings to gather impressions that allow her to write within her own construction of mood. While all writing involves making a wide range of choices, Moreira Marques’s reflects the deli cateness of topics and her own response to them. In her point of view Moreira Marques is exact, yet unobtrusive. Characters and stories appear in a manner that neither imposes on them nor on the reader. The latter has the freedom to read and interpret at will, and the former are handled with respect for their individuality. The stories always have an author’s touch in the ordering and rendering of events and, invariably, they become Moreira Marques’s stories. Isabel Nery and Alice Trindade interviewed Moreira Marques at her home in Lisbon, on April 9, 2018. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/29360 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Portuguese Writing; Literary Journalism; Immersion; Elderly Studies; Dying alone | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Scholar-Practitioner Q+A . . . An Interview with Susana Moreira Marques | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 161 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 150 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Literary Journalism Studies | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 12 | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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