Micheliny Verunschk, Writer: “Fiction Gives the Possibility to Give Voice to the Mute”

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Brazilian writer Micheliny Verunschk (Recife, 53) attended in 2016 an exhibition in São Paulo dedicated to the history of Brazil that impacted her. Images of indigenous populations and the colonial past of her country were shown there and, although as a historian she recognized that history well, she was not surprised by the drama of a couple of indigenous children who were torn from their jungle populations and sent as exotic beings to Germany …