Brazil – Literary South

Podcast: Literary translator from Portuguese Eric M. B. Becker

April 29, 2021February 19, 2022Posted in Author, Brazil, Interivew, Literature, Literature in translation, Podcast, Poetry, Radio show, TranslationTagged Angola, Mozambique, PortugalLeave a comment

Eric M. B. Becker is a writer, literary translator, and editor of Words without Borders. He has also published translations of numerous writers from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa, including, MIA COUTO, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Djaimila Pereira de Almeida, Alice Sant’Anna, Fernanda Torres, and Lygia Fagundes Telles (NEA Fellowship 2019), among others. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Literary Hub, Freeman’s, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, among other publications. He has served on the juries of the ALTA National Translation Award and the PEN Translation Prize, and he is a member of the board of artist brand management consultancy CargoCulture.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Indigenous Writing Project: Contemporary Guaraní Poetry at Words Without Borders.
Three Fires By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida Translated By Eric M. B. Becker.
Poem Lisbon – 1971 by Armenio Viéira translated by Eric M. B. Becker and David Shook for Words Without Borders’s Cabo Verde literature issue.
speak low by Alice Sant’Anna translated By Eric M. B. Becker (A poem from the book can be read at BOMB magazine)

Clockwise from top left: That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida translated by Erick M. B. Becker, Rain & other stories by Mia Couto translated by Erick M. B. Becker, São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos, speak low by Alice Sant’Anna translated by Erick M. B. Becker.

Sound engineer: Oscar Perez.

Literary South’s On Translation series

February 20, 2021February 20, 2021Posted in Argentina, Author, Brazil, Indie press, Latin America, Literature, Literature in translation, Olga Tokarczuk, Radio show, Translation, Women in translationTagged Fitzcarraldo Editions, Olga Tokarczuk, TranslationLeave a comment

After almost five years of interviewing authors from Latin America, Literary South is exploring a new direction to talk about literature in translation. Many of the authors that have been featured in the show are also translators and Latin American authors writing in Spanish can access English-speaking readers, and important literary prizes, thanks to the translations of their work.

That’s why Literary South wants to explore translation as an art and as a powerful tool to diversify the stories we read. The first three guests of 2021:

February: translator, author and editor Jessica Sequeira.

Jessica Sequeira is a writer, literary translator and PhD candidate at the Centre of Latin American Studies, based in Cambridge (UK) and Santiago (Chile). Sequeira has translated authors like Carlos Fonseca, Osvaldo Lamborghini, Liliana Colanzi to name a few. She is the author of A Luminous History of the Palm (Sublunary editions), A Furious Oyster, a novel (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Rhombus and Oval, a collection of stories (What Books Press), Other Paradises, a collection of essays (Zero Books).

March: translator and author Jennifer Croft

Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Spanish. Croft is the author of the memoir Homesick (Unnamed Press) With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions).

April : Translator and editor Eric M B Becker

Eric M. B. Becker is a writer, literary translator, and editor of Words without Borders. In 2014, he earned a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of a collection of short stories from the Portuguese by Neustadt Prize for International Literature winner and 2015 Man Booker International Finalist Mia Couto (now available from Biblioasis as Rain and Other Stories). He has also published translations of numerous writers from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa, including, Noemi Jaffe, Elvira Vigna, Paulo Scott, Martha Batalha, Paulo Coelho, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Current book projects include work by Djaimila Pereira de Almeida, Alice Sant’Anna, Fernanda Torres, and Lygia Fagundes Telles (NEA Fellowship 2019), among others.

Podcast: Poets Patrizia Longhitano (Brazil) + Ana Maria Reyes (Venezuela)

June 25, 2020March 23, 2021Posted in Author, Brazil, Fanzine, Feminism, Interivew, Latin America, Literature, Podcast, Poetry, Radio show, VenezuelaTagged Books, Brazil, Colombia, Filmmaking, Literature, London, Radio, short story, Spanish, Storytelling, VenezuelaLeave a comment

Patrizia Longhitano was born in Brazil in 1980 and lived in Manaus until she was eight years old. She moved to Italy with her adoptive parents until 2005 when she decided to move to the UK. Since then, she has been living in London working as a nanny. She started writing poems in English more than ten years ago. Some of her poems have appeared in the anthology Un Nuevo Sol, The Rialto Magazine, The South Bank Poetry Magazine and The Delinquent.

Ana María Reyes is a poet from Caracas, Venezuela born in 1983. She is the co- founder of the poetry collective Poesía Pandemica. She studied arts and documentary filmmaking. Her work has been anthologized in Leyendo poesía in London: todas las voces todas, todas (El ojo de la cultura, 2019) and De Lujurías y Musas.

Music: Pelo Cucu by Lido Pimienta