17 SET | LITERARY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ASIA, with Raquel Ochoa

Literary conversations about travels to Asia, featuring renowned writers, reveal themselves as spaces for cultural sharing, reflection, and discovery. In these exchanges, the authors explore not only the places visited but also the encounters, social contrasts, and inner transformations provoked by travel. By sharing experiences, the authors reflect on the limits of language, the challenges of cultural translation, and the ethical responsibility of representing distinct realities.
These conversations highlight the role of the traveler-writer as a cultural mediator, who interprets the “other” and confronts themselves, where travel transforms into an intellectual and emotional journey that broadens horizons — both for the writer and the reader.

Biographical note
Winner of the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Award with the novel A Casa-Comboio, the saga of a family from Daman in the almost forgotten Portuguese India, published in 2010 and, in the meantime, translated into Italian. She was a finalist for the Leya Award in 2023 with the recent Coração-Castelo, about a true story that occurred in 1637 in Japan.
Raquel Ochoa is the author of historical novels: Mar Humano and As Noivas do Sultão, biographies: Bana – A Life Singing Cape Verde, A Infanta Rebelde and Manuel Vicente – The Disassembly of the Unknown, and travel chronicles: O Vento dos Outros and Sem Fim à vista – The Journey, always writing with a special focus on the meeting of cultures throughout history.

Born in Lisbon, she graduated in Law, but soon turned the helm towards travel, writing about them and guiding groups in various countries to which she frequently returns, such as India, Cape Verde, the Philippines, or Japan.
She organizes and accompanies mini-tours around the globe in collaboration with the Pinto Lopes Viagens agency.

With the support of Pinto Lopes Viagens

Information:
ca.cfc@scml.pt I +351 213 235 004

Maximum of 50 participants

Casa Ásia – Francisco Capelo Collection
Largo Trindade Coelho, 22, 1200-450 Lisbon (near Chiado)