{"id":393658,"date":"2025-08-15T09:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=393658"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:56:21","slug":"hatoum-elected-to-brazilian-academy-of-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/hatoum-elected-to-brazilian-academy-of-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatoum elected to Brazilian Academy of Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Brazilian Academy of Letters (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABL<\/a>) has announced that writer Milton Hatoum is its newest member. A descendant of Lebanese immigrants and author of books that reference Lebanese immigration, Hatoum was elected on Thursday (14) with 33 votes. He will occupy Chair 6, previously held by journalist C\u00edcero Sandroni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the House of Machado de Assis, Milton Hatoum!\u201d the ABL posted on its social media, sharing a brief profile of the author. Hatoum is one of the most respected contemporary Brazilian writers, with books published in 17 countries and over 500,000 copies sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of his novels include <em>Tale of a Certain Orient<\/em>, <em>Two Brothers<\/em>, <em>Ashes of the Amazon<\/em>, <em>Orphans of Eldorado<\/em>, <em>A Noite da Espera<\/em>, and <em>Pontos de Fuga<\/em>. Born in Manaus in 1952, Hatoum is not only a novelist but also a short story writer, essayist, translator, professor, and lecturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milton Hatoum is the recipient of one of the most prestigious awards in Brazilian literature, the Pr\u00eamio Jabuti, as well as Portugal Telecom Prize and the Book of the Year Award ofthe Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL). He has also been recognized for his work as a translator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/palestine-brazil-story-collection-to-be-launched\/\">Palestine-Brazil story collection to be launched<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-393644\">Supplied<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazonas native of Lebanese descent, Milton Hatoum became on Thursday (14) the newest member of the ABL, occupying chair number 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":393644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[14091,50923,5608,9534,2207,5927,48585,10647,40403,16210,34026,5219],"class_list":{"0":"post-393658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-abl-en","9":"tag-arab-descendants","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-brazil-en","12":"tag-immigrants","13":"tag-lebanese-descendants","14":"tag-lebanon-2","15":"tag-libano-ar","16":"tag-livros-en","17":"tag-milton-hatoum-en","18":"tag-milton-hatoum-en-2","19":"tag-writer"},"wps_subtitle":"An Amazonas native of Lebanese descent, Milton Hatoum became on Thursday (14) the newest member of the ABL, occupying chair number 6.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}