The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Carlos Norcia Morais, MFA. Carlos’ graduate thesis is a novel entitled Immanence.
Carlos is from São Paulo, Brazil, and he moved to Vancouver in 2021 – his current work exists in a territory between these two places. Before he arrived in Canada, Carlos worked as a screenwriter (and a bunch of other things in the Film & TV industry) in Brazil for over 10 years. During his MFA program, DarkSide Books published the third non-fiction book he translated from English to Brazilian Portuguese. Carlos likes to write character-focused stories that are noisy, experimental and move across different genres. His stories have been published in Revista Mafagafo, Big Echo, Mithila Review and Interzone Magazine.
Immanence follows a cast of characters from an alternative, stylized version of Brazil called Cordiális; the main story happens between the 1970’s and the early 2020’s. The central characters – Rosa and Sérgio – are survivors from the fascist military dictatorship that ruled their Latin American country from 1964 to 1985. Later in their lives, they’re living another authoritarian regime during the COVID-19 pandemic. Immanence moves between the literary and the speculative, from the 1970’s to the distant future, to portrait what it takes for people to try to stop the cyclical return of fascism and authoritarian violence.
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