The Grandfather

Nuno Camarneiro is an award-winning novelist from Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He earned his undergraduate degree in physical engineering from the University of Coimbra and a PhD in cultural heritage science from the University of Florence. A winner of the prestigious Prémio LeYa literary prize, Camarneiro has published three novels to date: No meu peito não cabem pássaros (My Breast Can Hold No Birds, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2011), Debaixo de algum céu (Under the Far Heavens, Leya, 2013), and O fogo será a tua casa (Fire Shall Be Your Home, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2018).

Michele Bantz is an American translator of Spanish and Portuguese. She attended the Middlebury’s Portuguese School as a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace and earned her MA in translation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. A Bread Loaf alumna and recipient of the inaugural Granum Foundation Translation Prize in 2021, Bantz has been awarded funding, fellowships, and writing residencies from the American Literary Translators Association, the New York Circle of Translators, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.