Ana Paula Maia

Ana Paula Maia (Brazil, 1977) is an author and scriptwriter and has published several novels, including O habitante das falhas subterraneas (2003), De gados e homens (2013), and the trilogy A saga dos brudos, comprising Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos (2009), O trabalho sujo dos outros (2009) and Carvao animal (2011). Her novel A guerra dos bastardos (2007) won praise in Germany as among the best foreign detective fiction. As a scriptwriter she has worked on a wide range of projects for television, cinema and theatre.The author won the Sao Paulo de Literatura Prize for Best Novel of the Year two years in a row: in 2018 for her novel Assim na Terra como embaixo da Terra, and in 2019 for Enterre Seus Mortos.

Zoe Perry is a Canadian-American translator who has translated work by several contemporary Portuguese-language authors, including Emilio Fraia, Clara Drummond, Rodrigo de Souza Leao, Lourenco Mutarelli, and Carol Bensimon. Her translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Astra, _n+1 _and _The Paris Review. _Zoe was awarded a PEN/Heim grant for her translation of Veronica Stigger’s _Opisanie Swiata _and was selected for a residency at the Banff International Translation Centre for her translation of Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol. She is a founding member of the Starling Bureau, a translators collective.