Memory as resistance

Isabel Rio Novo and João de Melo, two central voices in contemporary Portuguese literature, meet in a conversation that explores how writing intersects with history, memory, and identity.

With works spanning different times and geographies, from biography to fiction, from biography to fiction, from insular landscapes to collective experience, both build narratives in which the past continues to question the present.

Between historical rigour and literary invention, they explore how lives, places, and events are told.

A session in which literature emerges as a space of reconstruction and meaning.

To access BABELL sessions, even with a ticket in hand, you must always bring a book with you.