Books

English-to-Portuguese translation of nonfiction (true crime, investigative journalism, forensic medicine) and fiction, mostly for DarkSide Books: as a freelancer until 2017 and, since 2019, with the Ligna team, on co-translation projects with project coordination and quality control.

Published short translations

2010
Entrevista com Günter Grass · Faustino F. Álvarez (entrevistador)
Book of interviews published by Editora Calibán (Rio de Janeiro) · ES>PT-BR
Interview given by German writer Günter Grass, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, to journalist Faustino F. Álvarez at his home in Behlendorf, first published in the debut issue of the magazine El Cielo de Salamanca (2000). Grass talks about his recent awards, his book My Century, and the relationship between political commitment and literature.
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2007
“idéias de uma cidade” e outros poemas · Gerardo Dirié
Revista Confraria, no. 12, Jan./Feb. 2007 (Confraria do Vento; ISSN 1808-6276) · ES>PT-BR
The first selection of poems by Argentine poet Gerardo Dirié published in Portuguese: excerpts from the sequence “idéias de uma cidade,” “natureza morta holandesa,” “dois poemas eventuais,” and an untitled poem. Born in Córdoba, Dirié is also a composer, conductor, and teacher; at the time, he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia.
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2006
Prólogo ao dicionário Clave · Gabriel García Márquez
Revista Confraria, no. 11, Nov./Dec. 2006 (Confraria do Vento; ISSN 1808-6276) · ES>PT-BR
Prologue written in 1997 for the Clave dictionary, published by the Spanish house SM, and never before published in Portuguese. García Márquez recalls how his grandfather, corrected at a circus about a dromedary, went to settle the matter in the dictionary; compares definitions of “amarillo” (yellow) from 1611 to 1976; praises María Moliner's solitary work; and makes the case for dictionaries designed with children in mind as well.
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