Tatiana Salem Levy

Tatiana Salem Levy is a writer and translator. She was born in Lisbon and now lives in Rio de Janeiro. Her debut novel, A chave de casa (2007), won the São Paulo Prize for Literature and was a finalist for the Jabuti Award and the Zaffari & Bourbon Award. It has been translated into French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish. Her second novel, Dois rios (2011), is forthcoming in Germany, Italy and Portugal. Levy co-edited Primos: histórias da herança árabe e judaica (2010) and is also author of the book-length essay A experiência do fora: Blanchot, Foucault e Deleuze (2011). ‘Blazing Sun’ (‘O Rio sua’) is a new story.