Iniciamos hoje, pelas 18:30, no Auditório Ilídio Pinho, a primeira conferência do nosso programa O Estrangeiro, com a participação da escritora Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.

Djaimilia is also part of the curatorial team for our annual program of concerts, conferences, exhibitions, and performances, alongside Daniel Ribas, Nuno Crespo, and João Alberto Gomes.

Todas as noites, no escuro (Every Night, in the Dark) is the title the writer has given to this conference, drawing from her return to Lisbon after 16 years, where she grapples with the past, the present, and the changes between new and old neighborhoods.

The Stranger and Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida invite us to confront the resistant nature of the arrival of the foreigner, the stranger—the way it unsettles us and what it brings.

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, writer, she is the author of several books, including Esse Cabelo, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, As Telefones, Três Histórias de Esquecimento, Ferry and Toda a Ferida é uma Beleza, winner of the APE/DGLAB 2024 Grand Prize for Novels.

She was a professor at New York University and has collaborated with various publications, such as the New York Times, Granta, la Repubblica, Folha de S.Paulo, Serrote, Literaturhaus Zürich, among others.

She has received several awards, including the Virgílio Ferreira Prize 2025, awarded by the University of Évora, the Grand Prize for the Novel and Novella from the Portuguese Writers' Association (2024), the FLUL Alumni Prize - Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (2023), the Eça de Queiroz Foundation Literary Prize (2019), the Inês de Castro Foundation Literary Prize, among many others. In 2021, she was a consultant for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Non-Discrimination at the Civil House of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and, in 2023, she was appointed by the Ministry of Culture as a member of the board of directors of the Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation for the 2023-2026 term.