Teolinda Gersão

Teolinda Gersão is the author of nineteen books, translated in twenty countries. Some of her works have been adapted to theater and cinema. She received some of the most important Portuguese literary awards and was writer-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley. Her novel The Word Tree was published by Dedalus Books (UK), and her other novel City of Ulysses by Dalkey Archive (US). Several of her short stories have been published in American journals (Two Lines, The Common, The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Harden Ferry’s Review etc.) and in the anthologies New Sudden Fiction, Best short stories from America and beyond (W.W. Norton 2007), Take Six (Dedalus Books 2018), Best European Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press 2019), and Lisbon Stories (Oxford University Press 2019). Her translator is Margaret Jull Costa. (Photo credit: image courtesy of the author)