João Guimarães Rosa Author

Alison Entrekin is an award-winning literary translator from Portuguese into English. She has translated many of Brazil’s most beloved and iconic literary works. She has won the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize and PEN medallion and the AAWP Translator’s Prize. She has been an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellow and a finalist in the PEN America Translation Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, among others. Entrekin speaks regularly on the topic of literary translation and has taught translation workshops around Brazil.

João Guimarães Rosa was a novelist and short-story writer whose innovative prose style, derived from the oral tradition of the sertão (hinterland of Brazil), revitalised Brazilian fiction in the mid-twentieth century.