Ángel
Gurría-Quintana

Ángel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the Financial Times. His translations include Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil (Full Circle Editions, 2013) and The Return, Violeta Among the Stars and Eliete by Dulce Maria Cardoso (all MacLehose Press).

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2025

Dulce Maria Cardoso

Eliete – A Normal Life

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