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Beatriz Bracher

Beatriz Bracher



Beatriz Bracher‘s first book, Azul e Dura (2002), won the Clarice Lispector Award from the Brazilian National Library. Her novels and short stories have been translated into Spanish and German, and she has two novels forthcoming from New Directions in 2018.


Edgar Garbelotto is a Brazilian writer and translator. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction at the University of Illinois. His translation of João Gilberto Noll’s novel Lord is forthcoming from Two Lines Press in 2019. He lives in Chicago, where is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

May/June 2018

Davi

By Beatriz Bracher

Translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto (having you sleeping by my side was all I ever wanted) 1 Davi looks at what is happening in front of him. His mouth […]