Alison Entrekin

Alison Entrekin has translated a number of works by Brazilian authors into English, including City of God, by Paulo Lins, Near to the Wild Heart, by Clarice Lispector, The Eternal Son, by Cristovão Tezza, shortlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Budapest, by Chico Buarque, which was voted one of the ten best books published in the UK and was a finalist in the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 2004. She was also a finalist in the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize & PEN Medallion in 2009 and 2011. (Photo credit: New Directions Publishing)