John Gledson is Professor Emeritus of Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of books in English and Portuguese on the nineteenth-century novelist and short-story writer Machado de Assis and the twentieth-century poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. He has translated several works by Brazilian authors, including Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis, The Brothers and Ashes of the Amazon by Milton Hatoum, and Roberto Schwarz’s critical work on Machado de Assis, A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism.