With 23 votes, indigenous writer and environmental activist Ailton Krenak was elected on Thursday (Oct. 5) to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, or ABL. He is the first indigenous person to occupy a seat in the academy, and is taking seat number five, which belonged to Jose Murilo de Carvalho, who died in August this year. Vying with Krenak were historian Mary del Priore and fellow indigenous writer Daniel Munduruku, wh
