THE HOUSE IN SMYRNA

Tatiana Salem Levy is a Brazilian writer who resides in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon. In 2012 Granta named her one of Brazil’s best young novelists, and her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review online, and the anthology Other Carnivals. Levy holds a PhD in literature and is a columnist with the newspaper Valor Econômico. Her novel The House in Smyrna won the prestigious São Paulo Prize for Literature for best debut. It has been translated into French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish, and has sold more than 50,000 copies worldwide.

Alison Entrekin has translated a number of significant works, including Paulo Lins’ City of God, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film; Cristovão Tezza’s The Eternal Son, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart, shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize; and Chico Buarque’s Budapest, shortlisted for the UK Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Originally from Australia, she now lives in Brazil.