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INTERVIEWER
You were living in Brazil, weren’t you, when you won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956?
BISHOP
Yes. . . . The next day there was a picture in the afternoon paper. They take such things very seriously in Brazil—and the day after that my Brazilian friend went to market again. There was a big covered market with stalls for every kind of comestible, and there was one vegetable man we always went to. He said, “Wasn’t that Doña Elizabetchy’s picture in the paper yesterday?” She said, “Yes, it was. She won a prize.” And he said, “You know, it’s amazing! Last week Seņora (Somebody) took a chance on a bicycle and she won! My customers are so lucky!” Isn’t that marvelous?
Find the complete Elizabeth Bishop interview in The Paris Review Interviews, I available now from Picador.
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