{
  "id": 8381835,
  "title": "Gonçalo M. Tavares, writer: ‘If a country like the U.S. has 40 million poor people, that country isn’t rich’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/goncalo-m-tavares-writer-if-a-country-like-the-u-s-has-40-million",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-19T04:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais English",
    "slug": "el-pais-english",
    "url": "https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/goncalo-m-tavares-writer-if-a-country-like-the-us-has-40-million-poor-people-that-country-isnt-rich.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Portuguese author writes compulsively, but he lets his manuscripts sit in a drawer for years. Translated into 70 languages, Saramago once said of him: ‘It’s not natural to write so well. You feel like punching the guy. They’ll give him the Nobel Prize for sure’",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}