Eliane Brum

Eliane Brum is a journalist, writer and documentarian internationally recognized for her work in investigative journalism. She has won more than 40 reporting awards and has collaborated in media such as El País, The Guardian and The New York Times. She is co-founder of the SUMAÚMA platform (2022), dedicated to disseminating stories from the Amazon and other parts of the world from the perspective of its peoples.

Brum has been awarded the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (2008) and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize (2021) for her career. She has also directed documentaries such as Uma Historia Severina and published the book La Amazonia, viaje al centro del mundo (2024), in which she explores the Amazonian reality. Prospect magazine named her one of the most influential thinkers in the world in 2025.

Featured works

The Amazon (Travel to the center of the world). It is a first-hand journalistic and political testimony about the Amazon rainforest and its destruction, written from the very heart of the Amazon after Brum moved there.

The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil. This work reiterates Brum as a journalist who tells the story of contemporary Brazil, combining chronicles, reports and profiles of people who are often invisible.

Meus desaconcimentos: A history of my life in words. A more personal and reflective book in which Brum explores her own history, her relationship with words and her career as a writer and journalist.