ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

MARGARET JULL COSTA has been a literary translator for over thirty years and has translated works by novelists such as Eça de Queiroz, José Saramago, Javier Marías, and Bernardo Atxaga, as well as poets such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luísa Amaral. ROBIN PATTERSON has translated works by José Luandino Vieira and José Luís Peixoto. Their co-translation of the Brazilian novelist Lúcio Cardoso’s Chronicle of the Murdered House won the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.