Author of The Toss of A Lemon and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao; translator of São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos; Forthcoming in 2023: Like Every Form of Love
Fayetteville, AR
Joined March 2009
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Sharing a stage with @SSinghBaldwin next Sunday afternoon in Milwaukee! Off site on the Sunday afternoon at the (ALTA) conference. @LitTranslate #ALTA47
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Portuguese translator @padmav tells us how her São Bernardo edition came to be. We discuss the book's merciless narrator, his surprising evolution, and Graciliano Ramos' devilish use of language.
Bet the farm: unburied-books.castos.com/ep…
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Join us next Wednesday to celebrate Padma Viswanathan (@padmav) and Tracy O’Neill (@tracysoneill) new books, which blend the detective and memoir genres in striking ways. They'll discuss breaking conventions to craft rich stories and more. Register here
tinyurl.com/ujpvuxks!
ALT The Center for Fiction presents Wednesday, July 24 at 7 PM ET Memoir Meets Detective Story with Padma Viswanathan and Tracy O’Neill In Person & Livestreamed | Register at centerforfiction.org
Gigi Little, book designer, tells here the story of creating the cover for the American edition of Like Every Form of Love. A lovely narrative rivaled only by her gorgeous cover!
Cover reveal for Like Every Form of Love by @padmav, published in the US by @713Books. It was such fun to work on this with the author and with editor @thinkhasie. I wrote about the process on my blog at: utomniabene.blogspot.com/202…
Toronto launch tomorrow, 8/24--please come out! (If you get a chance, please register at Eventbrite, so the Tamil Arts Collective knows how much food to buy...) eventbrite.ca/e/like-every-f…
Pub day in Canada! Very excited for Montreal launch tonight and Toronto on Thursday, with lots of gratitude for those who ushered this book into being.
Phenomenal that the South Asian Literature in Translation project has launched! Many congrats to
@danielhahn02
and
@jasongrunebaum
and everyone else involved in this game-changer. salc.uchicago.edu/salt-proje……
Such an honor to have been featured in this company. HUGE congrats to all the winners and shortlisted translators!
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‘PinT – Portuguese in Translation – is a new online book club dedicated to translated literature by Portuguese-language authors from all over the world.
We hope to introduce readers to the richness and variety of literature in Portuguese’ 👇
#xl8 #translation @LoudTranslators
Delighted to announce our website is live! Click to visit and explore Portuguese in Translation Book Club:
pintbookclub.com/
#pintbookclub #portugueseintranslation #books #bookclub
Pretty thrilling to see my Graciliano Ramos in this kind of company.
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Introducing the 2021 #ScotiabankGillerPrize shortlist! bit.ly/3FkHMlF #GillerPrize #ScotiaLovesBooks #CanLit #CrazyforCanLit
Many thanks to @laurencocking for this conversation!
My interview with the lovely @padmav went live on @leyendolatamblg today! In it we discuss class as a barrier to translation, how she fell in love with Brazil by way of music, and the experience of retranslating a Brazilian classic leyendolatam.com/in-conversa…
Thank you, amazing Asymptote, for publishing this story!
Brazil’s Adelice Souza blurs the boundaries between drama, prose, and “real life” in her eery existential fiction.
@padmav's haunting English translation illuminates the psychological dislocation that drives two actresses to their breaking point.
bit.ly/2Ykgwj4
So sick of arguments on American exceptionalism. THIS is exactly who we are. It's only one side of who we are, but pretending this wasn't Made in America won't help us move forward.
