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That Wind Blowing through the Plaza

Laura Erber

Translated by Anna Kushner

‘I didn’t go for the dental treatment, or for the gypsy dancing’

Laura Erber

Laura Erber was born in Rio de Janeiro, and is a visual artist and a writer of short stories, essays and poetry. Her four books of poetry include Os corpos e os dias (2008), which was shortlisted for the Jabuti Award. She has collaborated with Italian writer Federico Nicolao on the book Celia Misteriosa (2007) and with artist Laercio Redondo on the video project The Glass House (1999–2008), and has exhibited her work across Europe and Brazil. Her book on the Romanian theorist and poet Ghérasim Luca is forthcoming this December. Erber's first novel, Os esquilos de Pavlov, was published in 2013.

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Translated by Anna Kushner

Anna Kushner translates from Spanish, French and Portuguese. She is the translator of the novels The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes and Jerusalem by Gonçalo M. Tavares.

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