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Apnoea

Daniel Galera

Translated by Stefan Tobler

‘I could make you promise much worse things.’ Daniel Galera muses on unknown family histories.

Daniel Galera

Daniel Galera was born in São Paulo, but spent most of his life in Porto Alegre. He is founder of the publishing house Livros do Mal, which published his volume of short stories Dentes guardados in 2001. Galera’s work has been published in the US, Italy, France, Portugal and Argentina. Together with the artist Rafael Coutinho, he published the graphic novel Cachalote in 2010.

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Translated by Stefan Tobler

Stefan Tobler is a translator of Portuguese and German and the founder of And Other Stories publishing house. Tobler has published translations by writers including Antônio Moura, Clarice Lispector and Rodrigo de Souza Leão.

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