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On Roda Viva, journalist Vera Magalhães welcomes writer Itamar Vieira Junior. Winner of the Jabuti Award for Best Novel in 2020 for 'Torto Arado', Itamar Vieira Junior is a geographer, graduated from the Federal University of Bahia, where he also completed his master's degree, and a PhD in Technical and African Studies from the same UFB. 'Torto Arado' also earned the writer the Oceanos Award last year, one of the most important in the Portuguese-speaking literary world. In 2018, he had already received the Leya Award for novel. The work portrays the dramatic reality experienced in the backlands, the drought, the violence against women and the slavery practices that continue in labor relations. #RodaViva