Autor/-in: Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. was born in Luanda, Angola, and raised in Portugal. She is the author of acclaimed novels including That Hair. , a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize, and her work has won the Vergílio Ferreira Prize and the Oceanos Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta. and Words Without Borders. , among other publications. Alison Entrekin. is an award-winning translator from the Portuguese. Her translations include Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart. , Paulo Lins's City of God. , and João Guimarães Rosa's modernist classic Vastlands: The Crossing. Her work has earned her the New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize and Sydney PEN Medallion, and the 2022 Australasian Association of Writing Programs-Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Translators' Prize.