Translations

The Collector of Heads by Ana Matsusaki (Tapioca Stories, 2023)

☆ One of School Library Journal’s Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books ☆

“The Collector of Heads explores the delicate and complex cultural aspects of death with great humor and invites children to reflect on the shared and unique contents inside each of our heads. Original, entertaining, thought-provoking.” —Midwest Book Review

Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu (Archipelago Books, 2022)

☆ Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize ☆ Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize ☆ A most anticipated book by The New York Times ☆ Winner of a PEN/Heim Grant ☆

“Abreu’s prose shimmers and always surprises—each story is a small, bright gem. The fearless writing in this beautiful collection deserves a vast English-language readership.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review ☆

Tokyo Suite by Giovana Madalosso (Europa Editions, 2025)

“One of the best novels I’ve read in years… Madalosso masterfully writes two complex women, their lives and questions, and unfurls something both recognizable and fresh… This a book full of sophisticated irony, passages that can make any reader laugh and cry, with perfect timing.” —Estado de Minas

Niterói Lights by Marcello Quintanilha (Fantagraphics, 2025)

Following his Fauve d’or-winning graphic novel Listen, Beautiful Márcia, Quintanilha returns with a moving coming-of-age story of class, soccer, and friendship.

If I Were Pure by Amara Moira (Feminist Press, 2025)

Amara Moira brings an eye-opening autobiographical account of her experiences as a trans sex worker in São Paulo. With sharp prose that is both touching and humorous, Moira explores questions of self-love and self-esteem, sexuality and femininity, women’s pain and pleasure, and Latin America’s conflicting views on feminism.

Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective, ed. Thyago Nogueira (Prestel/PRH, 2023)

Considered Japan’s most influential and prolific photographer, Daido Moriyama has been challenging conventions of the art form for more than a half century. This exhaustive and electrifying retrospective, published in cooperation with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and based on entirely new research, looks at every stage of Moriyama’s extensive career, from his extraordinary images to his conceptual contributions to photography.

Other translations appear in BOMB, Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The American Scholar, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Epiphany, Literary Hub, The Massachusetts Review, Washington Square Review, Words Without Borders, Harvard Review, Quilo, Cordite Poetry Review, Latin American Literature Today, On the Seawall, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Aster(ix): Kitchen Table Translation, Heavy Metal Magazine, Jacaranda, and elsewhere.

Cuíer: Queer Brazil, ed. Sarah Coolidge (Two Lines Press, 2021)

“Fat Tuesday” by Caio Fernando Abreu

“A concise and enlightening overview of the last fifty years of LGBTQ literature from South America’s largest country… Nothing less than divine!” —John Keene, National Book Award-winning author of Punks

Twenty-First-Century Feminismos, ed. Simone Bohn and Charmain Levy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021)

“Black Feminist Activism in Brazil” by Cristiano Rodrigues and Viviane Gonçalves Freitas

“Autonomist Feminisms in Brazil: Protest Politics and Feminist Self-Defense” by Laura França Martello

Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America, ed. Javiera Hidalgo and Miguel Valerio (Amsterdam University Press, 2022)

“Black Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: Devotion and Solidarity” by Célia Maia Borges

“Cultural Resistance and Afro-Catholicism in Colonial Brazil” by Marina de Mello e Souza

“Much to See and Admire: Festivals, Parades, and Royal Pageantry among Afro-Bahian Brotherhoods in the Eighteenth Century” by Lucilene Reginaldo