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Theatre of Fortune
Nikolai Khalezin & Natalia Kaliada
Introduction The Belarus Free Theatre announced itself seven years ago by email. Along with a...
Sugar in the Blood
Andrea Stuart
‘I understood that migration was a kind of death, in which one’s old self must be buried in order for a new self to be born.’
Cofiwch Dryweryn
Jamie McKendrick
‘Remember Tryweryn’ – graffiti near Aberystwyth Soft water from Tryweryn reservoir was at our fingertips...
Some Other Katherine
Sam Byers
‘There were days when it seemed sordid and doomed; days which, oddly, Katherine found more romantic than the days of hope.’
Hands Across the Water
Rachel Seiffert
‘Dark red hair. Wee skirt and trainers, bare arms. All those freckles.’
Vinicius Jatobá and Jethro Soutar | Podcast
Vinicius Jatobá & Jethro Soutar
Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar discuss the challenges of translating his story ‘Still Life’ the role of China in the story and the intimate bond between author and translator.
Sònia Hernández on Carola Saavedra
Carola Saavedra & Sònia Hernández
‘It’s quite uncommon to find dialogues that engulf you from the first word.’
Introducing Laura Erber
Dara Horn
‘Do yourself a favour: do not read Laura Erber’s ‘That Wind Blowing through the Plaza’ only once.’
Toby Litt on Ricardo Lísias
Ricardo Lísias & Toby Litt
‘In every word I saw a true untrue Gogol, and I felt joy.’
Dry Flowers from the Cerrado
Milton Hatoum
‘People say that Brasilia’s new national library opened before it had any books. Is that a metaphor for many politicians’ minds? Or for these times we’re in?’
Introducing J.P. Cuenca
Andrés Felipe Solano
‘From the future, Cuenca narrates Rio’s collapse and the personal fall of the main character. He does it with the elegant distance of a data collector but also with the terrifying certainty of one who knows there’s no going back.’
Javier Montes on Emilio Fraia
Javier Montes
‘Fraia sets himself the most difficult and respectable task a writer can face: unveiling the mystery without revealing the secret.’
House Style: Editing Brazil
Yuka Igarashi
‘We’re freaks . . . Why are we still talking about typos?’
Introducing Daniel Galera
Alejandro Zambra
‘It’s hard to introduce Daniel Galera’s tale without resorting to adjectives that are more likely to arouse distrust than interest.’
Melanie Rae Thon on Vinicius Jatobá
Vinicius Jatobá & Melanie Rae Thon
‘You see that the only thing that seems to move in its atmosphere is dust suspended against a fine thread of sunlight, that time itself sleeps lazily on the stupefied clocks.’
Foreword: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists
Roberto Feith & Marcelo Ferroni
This is the first edition of Granta dedicated to Brazilian writing. It is being...
Animals
Michel Laub
‘I only stopped playing with him when he began biting the fingers of anyone who tried to pet him.’
That Wind Blowing through the Plaza
Laura Erber
‘I didn’t go for the dental treatment, or for the gypsy dancing’
Valdir Peres, Juanito and Poloskei
Antonio Prata
‘The only path to tread, from now on, was downward.’
Tomorrow, upon Awakening
Antônio Xerxenesky
‘He more than anybody else needs to define his symbols for the year to com.’
Far from Ramiro
Chico Mattoso
‘Through the eyes of the intruder, Ramiro saw the invasion of his own space.’
Lion
Luisa Geisler
‘The better they were at escaping, the quicker, more daring they were, the harder the cat chased them.’
