Ailton Krenak Author

Ailton Krenak was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the Doce River Valley region which has been severely affected by mining. A leading environmental activist and campaigner for Indigenous rights, he organized the Alliance of Forest Peoples, which unites riverine and Indigenous communities throughout the Amazon. He has consistently been one of the best-known campaigners in the movement set in motion by the Indigenous Awakening in the 1970s and was a key figure in the formation of the Union of Indigenous Nations (UIN), which brought together 180 different Indigenous groups across the country in a unified front to push for rights. He was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit by the President of the Republic in 2016, and holds an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. His previous book, Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, was an international bestseller, with more than 50,000 copies sold in Brazil alone.