Susana Moreira Marques

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Susana Moreira Marques is the author of Quanto Tempo Tem um Dia (How Long is a Day), a memoir about motherhood, and Now and at the Hour of Our Death, a work of literary non-fiction about the end of life. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Lettre International, and many other publications in several languages. She is the recipient of a 2019 Portuguese National Grant for Literary Writing and has been awarded fellowships by the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation, and the Jan Michalski Foundation, amongst others. She lives in Lisbon, where she currently writes a column for newspaper Mensagem and teaches creative non-fiction at Casa Mombak. Photo copyright Fondation Jan Michalski | Wiktoria Bosc