writer & journalist
born 1976, Portugal
„There are things that one can no longer write about as used to be possible in the past. Something changes. First the eyes, then the heart – or the senses, or whatever our ancestors called the soul – and finally the hands.“
Susana Moreira Marques studied Communication Sciences at the NOVA University of Lisbon and works as a journalist for Público and Jornal de Negócios. She has been awarded several journalism prizes, including the UNESCO ‚Human Rights and Integration‘ Journalism Award (Portugal) and the AMI Journalism against Indifference Prize. Today she also writes for film and television. In 2013 her first book “ Now and at the Hour of our Death“, she accompanied a palliative care team to portray dying people and their relatives who confront us with questions about our own mortality.