Francisco Vilhena
Francisco Vilhena is assistant editor at Granta. He translates from the Portuguese.
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Florianópolis
Paulo Scott
‘Even in a year in which Brazilians are not that excited about the competition, once the ref whistles and the match kicks off, an entire nation is frozen, hypnotised before their television screens. It’s the great truce, the great anaesthetic.’