Guido Melo Guido Melo i(16578319 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Afro-Brazilian
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1 There Is Always a Kebab Shop Somewhere Guido Melo , 2024 single work prose
— Appears in: Povo 2024;
1 Books Roundup Rosie Ofori Ward , Guido Melo , Sonia Nair , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2023;

— Review of A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 selected work essay ; Serengotti Eugen Bacon , 2023 single work novel
1 Casa Sendas Guido Melo , 2021 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , May 2021; Racism : Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry 2021;

'On the fifth day of every month, when my father collected his salary, the same thing happened at my house. My father, a proud Black sergeant for the Brazilian Air Force with short black hair and thick myopia glasses, arrived at home just after sundown. He was dressed in his usual ragged jeans and looked very sweaty with droplets on his forehead. I remember the bags under his eyes. I could never be sure if he was tired from his long shifts at the air base or just getting old. My father placed his tattered brown leather bag on the living room table. Frowning and looking at me from above his glasses, he said, ‘Are you coming or what?’ I nodded profusely, lips flat, attempting to hide my joy. It was supermarket day!'

Source : Introduction

1 Empathy i "When you call islamophobia, I listen", Guido Melo , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 100 2021;
1 Are You Talkin' to Me? Guido Melo , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal , November no. 39 2019;
1 The Long Way Home Guido Melo , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Growing Up African in Australia 2019; (p. 82-92)

'Salvador is the blackest city in Brazil. It's where I was born, in 1976. Salvador is about seventy per cent black and thirty per cent white. I would compare it to a southern state in the United States — Mississippi, perhaps — because the thirty per cent run everything. They own all the businesses and have all the power. My father was in the air force. His position shielded me from a lot of racism, but 'shielded from' doesn't mean eliminated: I suffered from it throughout my childhood.' (Introduction)
 

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