Interviewed by Amélia Hutchinson and Ana Paula Ferreira, Lídia Jorge discusses the literary and philosophical influences that marked her as a university student and her impressions of a generation of writers who emerged in the aftermath of the 1974 Revolution. Jorge responds to questions about women's writing and writing as a woman in contemporary Portugal. Among other issues broached in the interview are the role of desperation, dreams, the visual and the poetic in Jorge's literary universe. Jorge comments on the translatability of her novels into other languages and other media, including the recent film adaptation of her work The Murmuring Coast. She also gives her opinion on “lusofonia.”