Euridice Gusmao can turn her hand to absolutely anything, and very quickly become quite brilliant at it. But because she’s a woman in 1940s Rio, very few people see it that way. So things don’t turn out quite as they…
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Euridice Gusmao
Tagged with: books, Brazil, Brazilian Portuguese, Eric Becker, Martha Batalha, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Chronicle of the Murdered House
It takes a gay writer to bring a Catholic country back to its sense of love and sin, good and evil, and moral justice. The road is very long, but the actual miles travelled are very few, as almost all…
Tagged with: Brazil, Brazilian Portuguese, BTBA 2017, Chronicle of the Murdered House, Clarice Lispector, Lúcio Cardoso, Margaret Jull Costa, Queer, Robin Patterson
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
The House in Smyrna
The key to The House in Smyrna is in Rio. Her grandfather brought it with him on the boat when he emigrated from Turkey. His granddaughter was born in Portugal, and is travelling all the way back, to see if it still…
Tagged with: Alison Entrekin, books, Brazil, Portuguese, Rio di Janiero, Tatiana Salem Levy, The House in Smyrna, Translation, Turkey
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
A prickly translation: The hour of the star
“I write because I’m desperate and I’m tired, I can no longer bear the routine of being me and if not for the always novelty that is writing, I would die symbolically every day. But I am prepared to slip…
Tagged with: Benjamin Moser, Brazil, Brazilian Portuguese, Clarice Lispector, Rio di Janiero, The Hour of the Star, Translation
Posted in books, literature, Uncategorized
Posted in books, literature, Uncategorized
Rilke Shake
Two! Brazilian women in English translation on the ALTA national translation award long list. Is it the Olympic effect? Clarice Lispector is a heavyweight contender, but here’s something new, featherlight and deft from the south. It probably weighs less than…
Tagged with: Angélica Freitas, Brazil, BTBA 2016, Hilary Kaplan, NTA long list, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Portuguese, Queer, Rilke Shake, Translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
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