Paulo
Henriques Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. His third
collection of poems, Trovar Claro, received Brazil's
equivalent of the National Book Award from the Biblioteca Nacional,
and his fourth book, Macau, won Brazil's most prestigious
award, the Portugal Telecom Prize. In 2005, he published his
first short story collection, Paraisos artificiais.
Britto
is also one of Brazil's principal translators of British and
American literature, and received the National Library Foundation's
prize for his 1995 translation of E. L. Doctorow's The Waterworks.
His other translations include works by Henry James, V. S. Naipaul,
Thomas Pynchon, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop's poems
about Brazil. He currently teaches at the Catholic University
of Rio de Janeiro.
Translator Idra Novey's first book of poems The Next Country received the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books and will be released in fall 2008. Her recent poems appear in Slate, AGNI, Paris Review, and Ploughshares. A chapbook of her work was selected for the 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Currently she teaches at Columbia University and in the Bard College Prison Initiative. She received a P.E.N. Translation Fund Award for her translations of Paulo Henriques Britto.
To listen to translator Idra Novey's interview about Britto's The Clean Shirt of It, visit: Blog Talk Radio interview.
Press Materials for Paulo Henriques Britto
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books by Paulo Henriques Britto:
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