Susana Moreira Marques is the author of four books of literary non-fiction, most recently Notes from the Third Floor, as well as one children’s book. Her first book, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, was translated into English, Spanish and French and was a Book of the Year in the New York Times. Her work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation (Colombia), the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland) and Art Omi (US), amongst others. As a journalist, she worked for the BBC World Service, Público, Jornal de Negócios, Antena 1 and won several prizes, including the UNESCO Human Rights and Integration Journalism Award (Portugal). One of the editors of the literary magazine Mamute, she also writes for cinema. She lives in Lisbon with her two daughters.

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