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Renowned poet Adélia Prado from Minas Gerais was announced this Wednesday (26/6) as the winner of the prestigious Camões Prize, the most important recognition in Portuguese-language literature. The recognition comes just one week after she received the Machado de Assis Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), which also honors authors for their body of work. The team at Canal da Assembleia on YouTube is taking the opportunity to highlight an interview with the poet from Minas Gerais, Adélia Prado, recorded in 2018 for the program Memória & Poder on TV Assembleia, where she talks about her work, feminism, and the political moment in Brazil (2018). Adélia Prado is from Divinópolis, in the Central region of Minas Gerais, and is undoubtedly the most recognized living poet in Brazil today. With a career spanning over 40 years, the author recalls her poor childhood and few books in Divinópolis. She talks about the early loss of her mother and the reference she had in her father and the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade to produce her first texts. In this interview, from 2018, Adélia also comments on the challenge for women in Brazil at the time. “We are still very divided by partisan ideologies. And that is dangerous. We are giving up critical thinking. We have to know that we are not discussing people or dogmas, but ideas,” she says. See other programs from Memória & Poder, in the playlist: • Memória & Poder Source of research c...