Zoë Perry

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Zoë Perry’s translations of contemporary Brazilian literature have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Words Without Borders, and the White Review. She is a founding member of the Starling Bureau, a literary translators’ collective, and was selected for a Banff International Literary Translation Centre residency for her translation of Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol.

The Curse of the Flores Women: A Novel by Angélica Lopes
By Angélica Lopes

Angélica Lopes
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2024. 223 pages. Angélica Lopes made a name for herself in Brazil as a journalist and soap opera screenwriter. She is also the author of a number of young ad…
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
By Ana Paula Maia

Ana Paula Maia
Edinburgh. Charco Press. 2023. 104 pages. Of Cattle and Men is an excellent book of many dark, quiet questions. What does death mean to men who work in a slaughterhouse, who manually…
Keeping a Critical Eye on Brazil: A Conversation with Emilio Fraia
By Anderson Tepper

August 9, 2021 Anderson Tepper
Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol, out this summer from New Directions, is the sort of book that beguiles and dazzles in equal measure. Consisting of three disparate stories—of a m…